HOT...NOON AND ALREADY 87....SHOULD GO OVER 90 THIS AFTERNOON.

LEIGHTON AND I WILL BE AT THE FAIR IN DEWITT..... BROADCASTING THIS AFTERNOON, STARTING AT 2:30.

THE JACKSON COUNTY FAIR WAS A SUCCESS...ATTENDANCE WAS DOWN 265 FROM LAST YEAR. TOTAL ATTENDANCE, 16,716. THE LARGEST ATTENDANCE, OVER 18,000, WAS IN 1998. THE BULL RIDING SHOW WAS A HIT AGAIN LAST NIGHT WITH A FULL GRANDSTAND. EVEN A COUPLE MAQUOKETA BULLRIDERS.

THE GRAND CHAMP STEER WAS SHOWN BY YOUNG GIRL, KATLYN KILBURG,OF
BELLEVUE AND RESERVE BY YOUNG BOY AT MILES.

A 23 YEAR OLD CHARLOTTE MAN DIED IN HIGHWAY ACCIDENT LATE SATURDAY NIGHT ON HIGHWAY 136...AND A DELMAR BOY, COREY SELBY, AGE 15, DIED IN NEW ORLEANS AT LUTHERAN YOUTH CONVENTION SATURDAY NIGHT. ELEVATORS IN HIS HOTEL WERE VERY BUSY, SO HE AND OTHERS RAN UP THE 10 FLOORS AND HE DIED SUDDENLY, PROBABLY FROM A HEART DEFECT.

A DAVENPORT MAN WAS CHARGED WITH DRUNK DRIVING AFTER A PASSENGER FELL OUT OF HIS JEEP LAST NIGHT ON WEST SUMMIT. THE PASSENGER, JEREMY GRIMM, AGE 23, WAS TREATED AND RELEASED FROM THE LOCAL HOSPITAL.

COURT NEWS: DOUGLAS SCHLARMANN OF DELMAR, CHARGED WITH POSSESSION OF DRUG PARAPHENALIA.
TIM EVANS,AGE 18, OF MAQUOKETA, CHARGED WITH PUBLIC INTOXICATION.
DENNIS LASS, AGE 33, OF MAQUOKETA, SAME CHARGE AS ABOVE.

THE TWO HOUSES ACROSS FROM MAQUOKETA NEWSPAPERS ARE BEING BULLDOZED DOWN TODAY.....BY BRAD DEERY MOTORS.

NO BIRTHS OR DEATHS.

DALE YODER, OWNER OF FAMILY PHARMACY, IS ON VIEWS AND INTERVIEWS RIGHT NOW..1:05....TALKING ABOUT HIS PHARMACY BUSINESS ON WEST PLATT STREET, ACROSS FROM DOLLAR GENERAL. HE JUST MENTIONED THAT HE CAME TO MAQUOKETA AFTER COLLEGE OF PHARMCY, IN 1966. MET HIS WIFE SANDY AT COLLEGE. SHE'S ON THE SHOW WITH HIM TODAY ALSO. HE AND THOR HOLMGREN WERE PARTNERS YEARS AGO WHEN THEY BOUGHT CARSON DRUG STORE..ON THE CORNER IN DOWNTOWN MAQUOKETA. IN 1983, HE BOUGHT OUT THOR AND THOR MOVED TO DUBUQUE TO WORK AT THE HOSPITAL PHARMACY AND DALE STILL WORKS DAILY ON HIS OWN. THOR IS STILL AT THE HOSPITAL PHARMACY IN DUBUQUE.

FLASH..THIS JUST IN. BOB OSTERHAUS DROPPED OFF THE WINNERS AT THE DEMOCRATIC BOOTH AT THE FAIR. WINNING A $25 CERTIFICATE FOR TABOR PORK, JUDY EYE OF RURAL MAQUOKETA. AND... RON EVANS, FORMER POLICE CHIEF, WON A FAMILY PASS TO THE JACKSON COUNTY PRO R0DEO NEXT MONTH NEAR BELLEVUE. RON, RETIRED, WORKS PART-TIME AS GROUNDS AND MAINTENANCE MAN FOR THE FAIRGROUNDS.

COME BACK TOMORROW...KEEP COOL.

DENNIS VOY







 

LOW HUMIDITY...HIGH AROUND 85...

THE FAIR IS GOING GOOD IN MAQUOKETA. WEDNESDAY NIGHT'S ATTENDANCE WAS A COUPLE HUNDRED BELOW LAST YEAR AND LAST NIGHT, A COUPLE HUNDRED AHEAD. THE RICKY VAN SHELTON COUNTRY SHOW WAS A HIT. TRACTOR AND TRUCK PULL TONIGHT.

A GREAT RESPONSE YESTERDAY FOR THE OPEN HOUSE AT THE NEW GENERAC PLANT. NEARLY 3,000 ATTENDED. OVER 500 CAME TO FILL OUT JOB APPLICATION AND ABOUT THAT NUMBER HAD APPLIED EARLIER. THE RIBBON CUTTING CEREMONY FOR THE NEW MAQUOKETA MUNICIPAL ELECTRIC POWER PLANT OUT IN THE INDUSTRIAL SITE, ACROSS FROM GENERAC, LASTED A HALF HOUR WITH COMMENTS BY MANY DIGNATARIES. THEN, JUST AFTER THE CUTTING OF THE RIBBON, A SURPRISE! A GOOD FIVE-MINUTE FIREWORKS... DONE BY A WISCONSIN FIRM. VERY IMPRESSIVE! THE GENERAC BUILDING IS VERY NICE! THE OWNER AND HIS WIFE FROM WAUKESHA, WISCONSIN, WERE HERE. THEY STARTED THE FIRM IN THEIR BASEMENT 40-YEARS AGO. NOW HAVE 3 PLANTS IN WISCONSIN AND THE 1 HERE. HIS SON IS THE PRESIDENT. NOW, EQUIPMENT NEEDS TO BE INSTALLED AND HIRING WILL START IN SEPTEMBER. ACROSS THE ROAD, HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE ARE WORKING ON THE NEW FAMILY DOLLAR 20-ACRE BUILDING..YES, 20 ACRES UNDER ONE ROOF. THE STEEL STRUCTURE IS GOING UP.

A MAQUOKETA MAN, MARTIN ALLEN CLASEN, AGE 26, WAS SENTENCED THIS MORNING IN DISTRICT COURT, TO FIVE YEARS IN PRISON FOR HIS PART IN A METHAMPHETAMINE LAB IN MAQUOKETA.

KEVIN AND MARY BOWMAN OF MAQUOKETA ARE PARENTS OF A BOY BORN TUESDAY AT MERCY IN DUBUQUE. PATERNAL GRANDPARENTS ARE HUGH AND MARY BOWMAN OF MAQUOKETA.

NO DEATHS.

HAVE A NICE WEEKEND.

DENNIS VOY





 

7/10 IF AN INCH OF RAIN LAST NIGHT...HELPED. AND COOLER TODAY...CLOUDY AND 75.

A DEWITT WOMAN, MARY TAGUE, AGE 77, WAS KILLED IN A SINGLE CAR ACCIDENT YESTERDAY MORNING NEAR DEWITT...AFTER LOOSING CONTROL OF HER CAR.

GENERAC'S NEW BUILDING WILL BE OPEN TO THE PUBLIC TOMORROW. THE MAQUOKETA PLANT WILL BUILD LARGE GENERATORS AND EMPLOY AROUND 200 IN NEW BUILDING JUST SOUTH OF TOWN.

DAVID AND MAUREEN MOOS OF CRYSTAL, MINNESOTA, ARE PARENTS OF A GIRL BORN JULY 19TH IN MINNESOTA. MATERNAL GRANDMOTHER IS DOTTIE BAYLES OF MAQUOKETA. DOTTIE HAS BEEN ON KMAQ SALES STAFF FOR GOING ON 25 YEARS. GREAT-GRANDMOTHER IS ELINOR BAYLES OF MAQUOKETA.

JAMES AND MICHELLE CLARK OF MAQUOKETA ARE PARENTS OF A GIRL BORN JULY 17TH AT THE LOCAL HOSPITAL.

TODD AND JENNIFER SHOCKEY OF CHARLOTTE ARE PARENTS OF A BOY BORN LAST FRIDAY AT MERCY IN DUBUQUE. GRANDPARENTS ARE RICK AND SUE WILLIAMS OF MAQUOKETA AND STEVE SHOCKEY OF LOW MOOR.

A FACT OF THE DAY: MOSQUITO REPELLENTS DON'T REPEL...THEY HIDE YOU. THE SPRAY BLOCKS MOSQUITO'S SENSORS SO THEY DON'T KNOW YOU'RE THERE.
DO THEY HAVE MOSQUITO'S IN ARIZONA...OR ALASKA??

THE JACKSON COUNTY FAIR PARADE IS TWO HOURS FROM NOW.

WISH YOU COULD SEE IT.

MORE ABOUT IT TOMORROW...AND THE FAIR.

ANY MEMORIES OF THE FAIR? LET US KNOW ON THE GUEST BOOK.

DENNIS VOY



 

94...HEAT INDEX OF 98....ITS NICE!

HEAVY RAIN POSSIBLE TONIGHT AND TOMORROW MORNING..WE NEED IT...AND COOLER WITH A HIGH TOMORROW AROUND 80.

A QUICK NOTE AGAIN ABOUT THE MCHS CLASS OF '62...MAKING PLANS FOR BIG REUNION NEXT YEAR. INGRID HAYES RUDDY AND HELEN GARNETT FAHLSING ARE NOT HEADING UP THE REUNION....SOME LOCALS WILL...BUT THEY HAVE ESTABLISHED THE CLASS WEBSITE. I TOOK A LOOK AT IT. LOOKS GREAT.
YOU CAN BRING IT UP AT www.geocities.com/maqhs62

AT CITY COUNCILL MEETING LAST NIGHT, COUNCILMEN AGREED TO FILE AN APPLICATION WITH THE RESOURCE ENHANCEMENT AND PROTECTION PROGRAM(REAP)
FOR FUNDS FOR A RECREATIONAL TRAIL ALONG THE MAQUOKETA RIVER AT THE NORTH EDGE OF CITY. THE GRANT HAS BEEN REQUESTED BEFORE, BUT NOT FUNDED THEN.

ON THE POLICE BLOTTER....DAN BREITBACH OF BREITBACH FLOOR COVERING REPORTED SOME TOOLS TAKEN FROM HIS VEHICLE....AND BRAD DEERY MOTORS REPORTED TWO MORE SPARE TIRES WERE TAKEN FROM VEHICLE, VALUED AT $350.

MAQUOKETA POLICE ARRESTED TWO PEOPLE FROM THE CARNIVAL LAST NIGHT...BOTH ON PUBLIC INTOXICATION. SHERIFF'S DEPUTIES SAY THEY HAD RECEIVED COMPLAINTS OF THE PAIR DRINKING AND CAUSING DISTURBANCES AT RILEY'S IN MAQUOKETA...MANY YEARS AGO...KNOWN AS BILL'S TAVERN.
ANYONE OUT THERE EVER BEEN IN TO THAT FAMOUS MAQUOKETA TAVERN?

JEREMY KEIL, AGE 26, OF MAQUOKETA FINED $285 ON CHARGES OF ASSAULT...HE HIT AND KICKED CALEB BENDIXEN BACK IN JULY NEAR CORNER OF JAMES AND NIAGARA STREETS.

KMAQ TRAVEL IS TAKING A BUS SEPTEMBER 26TH TO THE DRURY LANE THEATRE NEAR CHICAGO TO SEE THE DEBBIE REYNOLDS SHOW.

HOW'S THE WEATHER IN ALASKA JACQUE?

DON'T FORGET TO CHECK THE KMAQ GUEST BOOK AT LEAST ONCE A WEEK.

SO HOT TODAY...GOT A COOL, REFRESHING HAIRCUT FROM LISA BARNES AT HER SHOP ON CORNER OF MAIN AND PLATT....HELPS. FORMER LOCATION OF BARBER SHOPS MANY YEARS AGO....AND BACK IN 50'S IT WAS THE HOME OF BUS AND JEAN'S RESTAURANT. JEAN ... WONDERFUL LADY ... STILL A RESIDENT OF MAQUOKETA...BUT UNDERSTAND SHE HAD A OPERATION JUST RECENTLY...HOPE SHE'S DOING WELL.

DRINK A LITTLE EXTRA WATER EVERY DAY....ESPECIALLY IF YOU ARE IN HOT WEATHER AREAS.

DENNIS VOY

 

HOT AGAIN TODAY...SAME FOR TOMORROW.....BUT......THEY ARE SAYING..COOLER FOR REST OF WEEK.

POWER FAILURE IN PARTS OF THE CITY THIS MORNING,BUT NOT HEAT RELATED.

CITY COUNCIL MEETS TONIGHT.

THE PPP...PEACE PIPE PLAYERS...LITTLE THEATRE GROUP...ARE PUTTING ON A MUSICAL REVUE CALLED "COLE"...AUG 11-12 AND 16-17. TICKETS ARE ON SALE NOW AT OSTERHAUS PHARMACY. THE PRODUCTION, DIRECTED BY PAM CRAWFORD, IS BASED ON THE MUSIC OF COLE PORTER.

KAREN FRANZEN, AGE 33,OF MAQUOKETA, WAS IN AN ACCIDENT LAST NIGHT 3 MILES NW OF MAQUOKETA. LOST CONTROL AND ROLLED ONCE. NO INJURIES. DAMAGE TO THE 96 FORD, $3,000.

VAMDALS OVER THE WEEKEND PAINTED BLUE OVER THE MONUMENT IN FRONT OF THE HIGH SCHOOL...AND ON THE NEW BASEBALL DIAMOND PRESS BOX...ALL SPRAY PAINTED..AND NO DAMAGE ESTIMATE WAS MADE.

AND BRAD DEERY MOTORS REPORTED SPARE TIRES WERE TAKEN FROM 3 DODGE PICKUPS....VALUE OF TIRES, $1,080.

AND BOB DAGUE REPORT THAT LAST WEEK SOMETIME, SOMEONE TOOK A TROLLING MOTOR AND OTHER BOATING ITEMS WITH TOTAL VALUE OF $3,300.

THE PEDESTRIAN WHO WAS HIT BY A CAR FRIDAY MORNING IN DOWNTOWN MAQUOKETA, IS LISTED IN GOOD CONDITION AT FINLEY HOSPITAL IN DUBUQUE.
SHE IS TERESA HANKEMEIR, AGE 75, WHO WAS HHIT AT MAIN AND PLATT ABOUT 8 AM LAST FRIDAY BY A CASCADE DRIVER. CHARGES AGAINST HIM ARE PENDING.

IN MAGISTRATES NEWS....BRENT CLARK, AGE 22, WAS CHARGED WITH DOMESTIC ABUSE.

DANIEL STEFFEN, ALSO OF MAQUOKETA, WAS CHARGED WITH CONTRIBUTING ALCOHOL TO MINORS.

SHANNON M0YLAN, AGE 25, WAS CHARGED WITH ASSAULT, WHEN SHE HIT ANOTHER PERSON IN THE EYE DURING THE BEACH PARTY SATURDAY NIGHT AT TIMBER LANES IN MAQUOKETA.

HERMAN BENISCHEK, AGE 81, OF OXFORD JUNCTION, DIED FRIDAY.
THE ONLY OBIT WE HAVE TODAY.

SOME ADDITIONS TO THE CLASS OF 61 REUNION HELD A WEEK AGO SATURDAY NIGHT. PHIL ROUND WAS THERE BECAUSE OF THE FACT THAT HE STARTED HIGH SCHOOL IN THAT CLASS AND THEN LATER, BECAUSE OF ILLNESS,
GRADUATED 1 YEAR LATER WITH THE CLASS OF 62. SO SAYS INGRID HAYES RUDDY OF THE CLASS OF 62...WHO IS ON COMMITTEE PLANNING THE 62 RE-UNION. ANY QUESTIONS, E-MAIL HER AT herbsoap@interl.net

ALSO...JERRY STEAD WAS NOT A CLASS OF 61 MEMBER..BUT HIS WIFE MARY
KLOPPENBERG WAS.

AND LINDA BULLOCK LAHAAN WAS ALSO IN CLASS OF '62 ...NOT IN '61 CLASS...AS I WROTE...HER HUSBAND BARRY LAHAAN WAS IN THE '61 CLASS. THEY HAVE LIVED IN ELDRIDGE-LONG GROVE AREA FOR 34 YEARS. BARRY RETIRED AFTER 5 YEARS OF TEACHING AND THEN 29 YEARS AS AN ELEMENTARY PRINCIPAL IN NORTH SCOTT SCHOOLS. HE NOW HAS A "MINISTRY" IN PAROCHIAL SCHOOL ADMINISTRATION AT ST. ALPHONSUS IN DAVENPORT. LINDA HAS BEEN A TEACHER OF ENGLISH AS A SEC0ND LANGUAGE TO FOREIGN SPEAKING CHILDREN IN DAVENPORT...HAS BEEN DOING THAT FOR 20 YEARS. SHE TAUGHT ELEMENTARY FOR 17 YEARS AND NOW IS AT DAVENPORT WEST HIGH SCHOOL WITH HIGH SCHOOL CHILDREN.

AND SO MUCH FOR A MONDAY.

COME BACK TOMORROW.

DENNIS VOY





 

HOT-HOT-HOT IN MAQUOKETA.

WAS THE SAME IN WISCONSIN.

JACKSON COUNTY FAIR STARTS THIS
WEDNESDAY WITH THE PARADE. ALSO THAT
NIGHT, THE FAIR QUEEN WILL BE ANNOUNCED
AFTER THE PARADE. THERE ARE 6
CANDIDATES, ALREADY INTERVIEW BY THE
FAIR COMMITTEE. THEY ARE:
ALLISON NIESS, AGE 18, DAUGHTER OF GENI
NIESS OF MAQUOKETA AND TIM NIESS OF
MAQUOKETA. GRADUATED THIS MAY FROM
MCHS.......SARAH EVEN, AGE 18, OF
BELLEVUE, DAUGHTER OF LARRY AND JOYCE
EVEN OF BELLEVUE, A GRADUATE THIS MAY
OF BELLEVUE COMMUNITY HIGH
SCHOOL......ERIN MANSON, 18, OF
MAQUOKETA, DAUGHTER OF JOHN AND
KATHLEYN MANSON, OF RURAL
MAQUOKETA.JUST GRADUATED IN MAY AT
MCHS. SHE IS THE ONLY CANDIDATE I KNOW
PERSONALLY, AS LAST JULY SHE DROVE
NANCY AND I IN A CONVERTIBLE IN THE
PARADE WHEN I WAS PARADE MARSHALL.....
HEATHER FULLER, AGE 17, DAUGHTER OF TOM
AND SUE FULLER OF MAQUOKETA, WHO WILL
BE A SENIOR AT MCHS.....MICHELLE
ZICKEL, 18, DAUGHTER OF CINDY ZICKEL OF
MAQUOKETA AND LARRY OF MAQUOKETA, A
2001 MCHS GRAD....AND JENNIFER HAMANN,
AGE 20, DAUGHTER OF MARY AND LARRY
HAMANN,SR. OF MAQUOKETA. SHE IS A
1999 GRAD OF MCHS AND CURRENTLY ATTENDS
CARDINAL STRITCH UNIVERSITY IN
MILWAUKEE. THE WINNER RECEIVES SOME
PRIZES, REIGHNS OVER THE U0COMING FAIR
AND REPRESENTS JACKSON COUNTY FOR THE
STATE FAIR QUEEN TITLE.

A NEW CLOTHING STORE...SHEEK
FASHIONS...OPENS TOMORROW IN DOWNTOWN
MAQUOKETA, OWNED BY KELLY HESSONG, WHO
CAME BACK TO HER HOME TOWN TO RUN THE
STORE. HER PARENTS WERE MR. AND MRS.
HAL MEYERS. SHE WORKED FOR A CLOTHING
STORE IN CHICAGO AND WORKED FOR KRAFTS
FOODS FOR QUITE AWHILE. MAQUOKETA HAS
NOT HAD A LADIES STORE FOR SOME TIME.
ABOUT 5 YEARS AGO, THERE WERE 5 STORES.

BOB AND LUCILLE EFFERDING OF MAQUOKETA,
WILL CELEBRATE THEIR 70TH NEXT SUNDAY,
JULY 29TH. WITH AN OPEN HOUSE AT THE
VFW CLUB. THEY WERE MARRIED JULY 20,
1931 AND HAVE TWO CHILDREN, RICHARD OF
RURAL MAQUOKETA AND MARILYN
SCHOENTHALER OF RURAL WYOMING...ALSO
SIX GRANDCHILDREN, TWELVE GREAT, TWO
GREAT-GREAT AND TWO GREAT-GREAT-GREAT
GRANDCHILDREN. I SEE BOB
OCCASSIONALLY DOWNTOWN. HE LOVES OLD
CARS AMD HAS LOTS OF STORIES OF
MAQUOKETA IN THE OLDEN DAYS.

CATHERINE STERK, AGE 93, CELEBRATED HER
BIRTHDAY TODAY. LIVES AT CRESTRIDGE
AND ONE SON, TOM, LIVES HERE IN TOWN.

MAQUOKETA LOST TO WEST DELAWARE OF
MANCHESTER FRIDAY NIGHT AND WILL NOT GO
TO THE STATE TOURNAMENT.

THE MAQUOKETA GIRLS ALSO LOST FRIDAY
NIGHT TO MOUNT VERNON AND HAS ALSO NOW
FINISHED THE SEASON.

HAVE A GOOD WEEK.

DENNIS VOY  

HOT-HOT-HOT IN MAQUOKETA.

WAS THE SAME IN WISCONSIN.

JACKSON COUNTY FAIR STARTS THIS WEDNESDAY WITH THE PARADE. ALSO THAT NIGHT, THE FAIR QUEEN WILL BE ANNOUNCED AFTER THE PARADE. THERE ARE 6 CANDIDATES, ALREADY INTERVIEW BY THE FAIR COMMITTEE. THEY ARE:
ALLISON NIESS, AGE 18, DAUGHTER OF GENI NIESS OF MAQUOKETA AND TIM NIESS OF MAQUOKETA. GRADUATED THIS MAY FROM MCHS.......SARAH EVEN, AGE 18, OF BELLEVUE, DAUGHTER OF LARRY AND JOYCE EVEN OF BELLEVUE, A GRADUATE THIS MAY OF BELLEVUE COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL......ERIN MANSON, 18, OF MAQUOKETA, DAUGHTER OF JOHN AND KATHLEYN MANSON, OF RURAL MAQUOKETA.JUST GRADUATED IN MAY AT MCHS. SHE IS THE ONLY CANDIDATE I KNOW PERSONALLY, AS LAST JULY SHE DROVE NANCY AND I IN A CONVERTIBLE IN THE PARADE WHEN I WAS PARADE MARSHALL.....
HEATHER FULLER, AGE 17, DAUGHTER OF TOM AND SUE FULLER OF MAQUOKETA, WHO WILL BE A SENIOR AT MCHS.....MICHELLE ZICKEL, 18, DAUGHTER OF CINDY ZICKEL OF MAQUOKETA AND LARRY OF MAQUOKETA, A 2001 MCHS GRAD....AND JENNIFER HAMANN, AGE 20, DAUGHTER OF MARY AND LARRY HAMANN,SR. OF MAQUOKETA. SHE IS A 1999 GRAD OF MCHS AND CURRENTLY ATTENDS CARDINAL STRITCH UNIVERSITY IN MILWAUKEE. THE WINNER RECEIVES SOME PRIZES, REIGHNS OVER THE U0COMING FAIR AND REPRESENTS JACKSON COUNTY FOR THE STATE FAIR QUEEN TITLE.

A NEW CLOTHING STORE...SHEEK FASHIONS...OPENS TOMORROW IN DOWNTOWN MAQUOKETA, OWNED BY KELLY HESSONG, WHO CAME BACK TO HER HOME TOWN TO RUN THE STORE. HER PARENTS WERE MR. AND MRS. HAL MEYERS. SHE WORKED FOR A CLOTHING STORE IN CHICAGO AND WORKED FOR KRAFTS FOODS FOR QUITE AWHILE. MAQUOKETA HAS NOT HAD A LADIES STORE FOR SOME TIME.
ABOUT 5 YEARS AGO, THERE WERE 5 STORES.

BOB AND LUCILLE EFFERDING OF MAQUOKETA, WILL CELEBRATE THEIR 70TH NEXT SUNDAY, JULY 29TH. WITH AN OPEN HOUSE AT THE VFW CLUB. THEY WERE MARRIED JULY 20, 1931 AND HAVE TWO CHILDREN, RICHARD OF RURAL MAQUOKETA AND MARILYN SCHOENTHALER OF RURAL WYOMING...ALSO SIX GRANDCHILDREN, TWELVE GREAT, TWO GREAT-GREAT AND TWO GREAT-GREAT-GREAT GRANDCHILDREN. I SEE BOB OCCASSIONALLY DOWNTOWN. HE LOVES OLD CARS AMD HAS LOTS OF STORIES OF MAQUOKETA IN THE OLDEN DAYS.

CATHERINE STERK, AGE 93, CELEBRATED HER BIRTHDAY TODAY. LIVES AT CRESTRIDGE AND ONE SON, TOM, LIVES HERE IN TOWN.

MAQUOKETA LOST TO WEST DELAWARE OF MANCHESTER FRIDAY NIGHT AND WILL NOT GO TO THE STATE TOURNAMENT.

THE MAQUOKETA GIRLS ALSO LOST FRIDAY NIGHT TO MOUNT VERNON AND HAS ALSO NOW FINISHED THE SEASON.

HAVE A GOOD WEEK.

DENNIS VOY  

HOT WEEKEND AHEAD.

MAQUOKETA BOYS PLAY WEST DELAWARE, MANCHESTER, TONIGHT AT CEDAR RAPIDS....AND IF THEY WIN, THEY GO TO THE STATE TOURNAMENT NEXT WEEK.
BOTH TEAMS HAVE NEARLY IDENTICAL RECORDS....MAQUOKETA BEAT THEM EARLIER THIS MONTH UP THERE...AND THE CARDINALS COULD WIN TONIGHT.

THE MAQUOKETA GIRLS ALSO ARE PLAYING A TOURNAMENT GAME TONIGHT AGAINST MOUNT VERNON...IF THEY WIN TONIGHT...THEY WOULD HAVE ONE MORE GAME TO WIN BEFORE GOING TO STATE.

SHIRLEY AND DOUG WINEGAR ARE CELEBRATING THIS 50TH TODAY.

BOB AND MIM STOCKHAM CELEBRATE THEIR 55TH TOMORROW. THEY ARE HEADING OUT WEST TO OREGON THIS WEEKEND IN THE DIESEL-PUSHER RV.

THIEVES STOLE $350 WORTH OF TOOLS FROM JOHN DAGUE OF MAQUOKETA A FEW DAYS AGO...TAKEN FROM HIS TRUCK WHILE IT WAS IN DOWNTOWN MAQUOKETA.
HIS IMPLEMENT BUSINESS IS LOCATED SOUTH OF TOWN.

SCHOOL BOARD NEWS: DEB PFAB WAS HIRED TO BE THE DISTRICT'S BUSINESS EDUCATION INSTRUCTOR. JIM MANDERSHEID HIRED AS FULLTIME BUS DRIVER. JOSH KOOB HIRED AS 9TH GRADE FOOTBALL COACH.

THELMA LEE, AGE 95, OF DEWITT DIED WEDNESDAY. SURVIVORS INCLUDE HER HUSBAND RAYMOND AND A SON, BOB,(FORMERLY OF MAQUOKETA) WHO RAN THE JACK AND JILL STORE IN MAQUOKETA MANY YEARS, AND NOW OWNS SKEFFINGTON'S STORE IN DEWITT.

VICTORIA WILLIS, AGE 82, OF ILLINOIS DIED WEDNEDAY AND SURIVIORS
INCLUDE A GRANDAUGHTER, MICHELLE DALZIEL OF MAQUOKETA.

AT THE FAIRBOARD VOLUNTEER DINNER LAST NIGHT, I SAT WITH HOMER ULRICH, FORMER MEMBER OF FAIRBOARD, NOW RETIRED FROM JOHN DEERE, AND LIVES NEARLY 6 MONTHS A YEAR IN FLORIDA...THE REST UP HERE. LOOKED GOOD. HAS ALWAYS BEEN A BIG MAQUOKETA BOOSTER AND HIS SON AND DAUGHTER-IN-LAW LIVE OFF THE CAVES ROAD NORTHWEST OF MAQUOKETA.
HIS WIFE MARTY DIED A FEW YEARS AGO.

SORRY THERE WAS NO REPORT LAST NIGHT...BUT I COULD NOT GET HOOKED UP TO THE HOST OF THE KMAQ SITE...HAPPENS ONCE IN AWHILE....AND THEN THIS MORNING, EVERYTHING IS FINE.

MORRIE MORRIS, LONGTIME MAQUOKETA GOLFER, SHOT A HOLE-IN-ONE YESTERDAY AT THE MAQUOKETA COUNTRY CLUB....DURING HIS FIRST ROUND ON MEN'S DAY, ON HOLE #9....A WOODS SHOT ABOUT 172-YARDS. BILL MOLER WAS NEAR THE CLUBHOUSE AND SAW IT GO IN. MORRIE SHOT A 39...NOT BAD FOR A 79-YEAR-OLD. HIS 2ND NINE....HE WAS HOPING TO END UP SHOOTING HIS AGE...BUT SHOT A 42 INSTEAD OF A 40. HE HAS HAD 2 OTHER HOLES-IN-ONE...BOTH IN DEWITT. BILL MOLER ALSO HAS HAD 3 IN HIS LONG GOLF CAREER.

I AM DOING THIS EARLY AS I AM LEAVING FOR MY HOMETOWN, HORICON, WISCONSIN ....AFTER DINNER. MY MOTHER, SOME OF YOU WILL RECALL, DIED LAST SEPTEMBER AT AGE 88. LAST NIGHT, MY DAD DIED FOLLOWING A HEART ATTACK IN THE AFTERNOON IN HIS HOME. HE DIED A FEW HOURS LATER IN THE BEAVER DAM HOSPITAL, WITH MY BROTHER AND FAMILY THERE. HE JUST CELEBRATED HIS 92ND BIRTHDAY THIS PAST TUESDAY AND NANCY AND I WERE PLANNING TO GO UP THIS SUNDAY. HE HAS BEEN RETIRED FROM THE JOHN DEERE PLANT THERE...FOR 32 YEARS. HE WAS A GOOD MAN AND I'LL MISS HIM. WORKED HARD AND WAS A DEVOTED HUSBAND AND FATHER. BACK IN 1965, HE AND MOM AND MY LIFE INSURANCE POLICY, GOT UP THE DOWN PAYMENT TO BUY KMAQ...AND THEY WERE ALWAYS PROUD OF THE STATION...EVEN THOUGH THEY COULD NOT LISTEN TO IT UP THERE. SURVIVED BY 3 SONS, SEVERAL GRANDCHILDREN AND A BROTHER.

SAY A LITTLE PRAYER THAT HE AND MOM CONTINUE TO GET ALONG TOGETHER IN HEAVEN.

PROBABLY WON'T HAVE ANOTHER REPORT UNTIL MONDAY LATE AFTERNOON.

HAVE A GOOD WEEKEND.

DENNIS VOY




 

88 TODAY...90 AND HUMID TOMORROW FOR RIDICUOUS DAY IN MAQUOKETA.
MAIN STREET WILL BE CLOSED TO TRAFFIC STARTING AT 7 TOMORROW MORNING.

LONGTIME SCHOOL BOARD MEMBER BRUCE PAULS IS GOING TO RUN FOR ANOTHER TERM. HE'S CIRCULATING PAPERS FOR THE SEPTEMBER ELECTION. THE OTHER SEAT UP FOR RE-ELECTION IS HELD BY CINDY FIER AND SHE IS NOT SURE YET IF SHE WILL RUN AGAIN.

THE MAQUOKETA CITY COUNCIL BOUGHT A USED DUMP TRUCK WITH SNOW PLOW LAST NIGHT...FOR $11,000.....FROM THE IOWA DOT...AND SO THEY'LL BE BETTER ABLE TO COPE WITH SNOW STORMS THIS WINTER.

KELLY MALONY, FROM BERNARD, A MIDDLE SCHOOL EMPLOYEE SINCE 1991,WAS LAST NIGHT HIRED FOR ONE YEAR AS THE INTERIM PRINCIPAL AT THE MAQUOKETA MIDDLE SCHOOL. TWENTY-THREE PEOPLE APPLIED FOR THE JOB.
SHE JUST RECENTLY RECEIVED HER ADMINISTRATION ENDORSEMENT.

IN MAGISTRATE COURT NEWS....KURT FELDERMAN, AGE 19, OF MAQUOKETA WAS CHARGED WITH FAILURE TO MAINTAIN CONTROL AND POSSESSION OF ALCOHOL UNDER AGE.

STEVE TAYLOR, AGE 20, OF MAQUOKETA, WAS CHARGED WITH POSSESSION OF ALCOHOL UNDER AGE.

BRIAN HOUSTON, AGE 30, OF MAQUOKETA, WAS CHARGED WITH POSSESSION OF DRUG PARAPHENALIA.

MARK KROLICK, AGE 21, WAS CHARGED WITH MAKING ALCOHOL AVAILBLE TO MINORS.

THE MAQUOKETA GIRLS DEFEATED ANAMOSA IN TOURNAMENT SOFTBALL PLAY LAST NIGHT, 4 TO 0, AT ANAMOSA AND NOW PLAY CASCADE TONIGHT..ALSO AT ANAMOSA. BOTH TEAMS ADVANCE, WIN OR LOOSE TONIGHT.

THE MAQUOKETA BOYS HOST DAVENPORT ASSUMPTION TONIGHT IN TOURNAMENT PLAY. WE HAVE ST. LOUIS CARDINAL BASEBALL TONIGHT ON FM AND MAQUOKETA CARDINAL BASEBALL ON AM TONIGHT. A CARDINAL DOUBLEHEADER.

BEN AND CHRISTINA KNEPPER OF CASCADE HAD A GIRL LAST NIGHT AT MERCY HOSPITAL IN DUBUQUE. GRANDPARENTS ARE ROGER AND PAT SCHNOOR OF MONMOUTH.

PHYLLIS C. LUSKEY MILLER, AGE 76,DIED YESTERDAY AT THE MAQUOKETA CARE CENTER. SURVIVORS INCLUDE A DAUGHTER, PATRICIA, MRS. CHARLES, WILSON OF MAQUOKETA.

DR. J. A. BROMAN WENT GOLFING TWICE LAST WEEK...SHOT A 46 BOTH TIMES. NOT BAD....HE'S 80.

DID YOU KNOW THAT NO PIECE OF PAPER CAN BE FOLDED MORE THAN 7 TIMES???
TRY IT BUDDY OLSON!

COME BACK TOMORROW.

DENNIS VOY

 

88 AT NOON, IN 90'S TODAY...AND HOT FORECAST FOR REST OF WEEK,
WITH MORE HUMIDITY COMING TOO.

MY THEATRE MANAGER, JACK JONES, IS ON A TRIP TO IRELAND AND HE IS COMING HOME WEDNESDAY. HE E-MAILED ME THIS MORNING AND SAYS IT HAS BEEN IN THE LOW 60'S THERE.

GREAT JONES COUNTY FAIR WEEK...STARTING WEDNESDAY AT MONTICELLO.

DAUGHTER LONNA AND I HAD LUNCH AT PIZZA HUT TODAY....THEY WERE BUSY AND MOST OF THE CUSTOMERS WERE MEXICAN BUILDERS WHO ARE IN TOWN FOR THE SUMMER HELPING BUILD THE FAMILY DOLLAR WAREHOUSE AND DISTRIBUTION CENTER. ALL TALK SPANISH ONLY. NICE GUYS. BUILDING MAQUOKETA'S ECONOMY.

A GRAND MOUND MAN WAS KILLED IN AN AUTO ACCIDENT YESTERDAY AFTERNOON SOUTHWEST OF CHARLOTTE....21-YEAR-OLD AARON ANDRESEN. HE WAS IN A CAR DRIVEN BY A MAN FROM MADISON, WISCONSIN.

AN ACCIDENT ON HIGHWAY 64 EAST OF BALDWIN AT 6 THIS MORNING SENT TWO TO THE J.C.P.HOSPITAL. THE DRIVER WAS FROM ANAMOSA AND A PASSENGER WAS JASON MAYS, AGE 18, OF MAQUOKETA. MAYS WAS NOT HURT.

SATURDAY NIGHT, NICK GOHLMAN, AGE 22, OF MAQUOKETA, ESCAPED SERIOUS INJURY AFTER A 1 VEHICLE ACCIDENT SOUTHWEST OF MAQUOKETA. HIS VEHICLE WENT OUT OF CONTROL AND STRUCK A UTILITY POLE. HIS SUV DAMAGE ESTIMATED AT 12-GRAND AND MAQUOKETA ELECTRIC UTILITY'S POLE, 2-GRAND DAMAGE. ELECTRICITY IN AREA WAS OFF FOR ABOUT 90-MINUTUES.

MCHS CLASS OF 61(WIFE NANCY'S CLASS) HELD THEIR 40TH RE-UNION SATURDAY NIGHT AT MICKEL'S CATERING SOUTHWEST OF MAQUOKETA.
GOOD TURN-OUT...OVER 70 PEOPLE, SO I DIDN'T TALK TO EVERYONE.
JACK ROSENBERG (AND WIFE PAM) SHOWED UP WITH NEW BLACK 2001 FORD HARLEY DAVISON. CLASS PRESIDENT JOHN STEIN IS RETIRED IN MICHIGAN. WIFE JUDY BULLOCK STEIN RETIRES LATER THIS SUMMER. DAVE HAYES AND DALE CARAWAY WON THE DANCE CONTEST...DANCING WITH EACH OTHER. JUDY HENTON ARRANGED TO HAVE HER DAUGHTER ON HAND TO SING A FEW COUNTRY SONGS FROM HER NEW CD. DANNY MOON COULDN'T MAKE IT BUT SENT AN E-MAIL FROM MILWAUKEE SAYING HE AND AND WIFE AVA (SOX) MAY BE MOVING TO CHINA IF HIS COMPANY, BRIGGS AND STRATTON, DECIDES TO BUILD A NEW PLANT THERE. DENTIST LARRY LOOS IS STILL TEACHING AT DENTAL COLLEGE IN SAN FRANCISCO. E-MAIL FROM COACH JIM DAHLBERG AT JOLIET, SAYS HE AND WIFE WILL BE CELEBRATING 50TH ANNIVERSARY THIS YEAR.
JERRY AND MARY JO STEAD FLEW IN FROM ARIZONA...WHERE HE IS BASICALLY RETIRED, SO I WAS TOLD. DIDN'T TALK TO HIM....HE IS CONSIDERED TO BE THE MOST SUCCESSFUL 61 GRAD. CHIROPRACTOR PHIL ROUND FROM LAS VEGAS WAS THERE...ALSO PHIL MAYBERRY AND WIFE FROM MARSHALLTOWN.
DALE AND LOVELL CARAWAY'S SON DAN IS IN A BEATLES MUSIC BAND...CALL HARD DAYS NIGHT...AND THEY ENTERTAINED AFTER JUDY'S DAUGHTER SANG.
BUT FIRST, HAD TO WAIT FOR THE ELECTRICITY TO COME BACK ON AFTER AN AUTO ACCIDENT NEAR BY. HAD TO WAIT NEARLY 90-MINUTES FOR THAT.
DAN CARAWAY, SINGLE, WORKS FOR HIS DAD IN REAL ESTATE BUSINESS HER IN TOWN. JANE DAGUE WAS THERE WITH FRIEND LARRY SAGERS. JANE LIVES IN CLINTON NOW. SON DANNY HAS AN APARTMENT HERE IN MAQUOKETA. MERLIN AND CAROL YEAGER WERE THERE. THEY HAVE A NEAT SUMMER HOME ON THE MISSISSIPPI AT BELLEVUE. STEVE AND BONNIE VEHRS ATE WITH US....THEY ARE IN PROCESS OF REBUILDING AN OLDER HOME IN MAQUOKETA, THAT WAS ONE OF MAQUOKETA'S FIRST DUOPLEXES. BARRY LAHAAN AND WIFE LINDA (BULLOCK) LIVE NOT FAR FROM HERE, BUT CAN'T RECALL WHERE....BUTCH PENROSE AND WIFE DROVE TO TOWN FROM SACRAMENTO AND I TALKED A FEW MINUTES TO CLASSMATES SUE MCAFEE AND ROSE WILLEY. DARLENE HAYES, AS WELL AS HUSBAND, DAVE, WERE IN THE CLASS. IT WAS 40 YEARS AGO THIS SUMMER, THAT DARLENE WAS MISS MAQUOKETA. BILL AND MARY LOU RISSER WERE THERE...MARY LOU'S CLASS. THEY BOUGHT A NEW HOME IN SWAGOSA HILLS A YEAR OR SO AGO. FRANCIS BELLER AND JUDY (WINGER) HAVE THEIR MAQUOKETA HOUSE FOR SALE AND ARE LIVING AT LAKE DELHI AND ENJOYING RETIREMENT. JUDY WAS A BEAUTICIAN A LONG TIME. SANDY ZUMHOFF WAS ON HAND ALSO AND ALSO LIVES UP AT LAKE DELHI. TIFF DREESEN AND WIFE ROSEMARY (DOLCH) LIVE IN BETTENDORF. TIFF IS AN AMATEUR ARTIST AND HAD SOME OF HIS PAINTINGS ON DISPLAY. HE STILL IS A GREAT DANCER. WHEN HE WAS IN HIGH SCHOOL, HE WON A DANCE CONTEST AT ONE OF MY TEEN HOPS AND HE AND HIS DANCING PARTNER,HIS SISTER, WENT WITH ME TO KCRG-TV IN CEDAR RAPIDS TO BE ON A LOCAL DICK CLARK TYPE DANCE PARTY. GARY PELTIER ALSO IS AN AMATEUR ARTIST AND HAD SOME OF HIS WORK ON DISPLAY...HE WORKS AND LIVES IN IOWA CITY. WELL...S0 MUCH FOR THE CLASS OF 61 AND THEIR 40TH GET-TOGETHER LAST SATURDAY NIGHT. MANY WENT TO FLAJACK RESTAURANT, INCLUDING NANCY AND I, THE NEXT MORNING FOR BREAKFAST. SORRY I WENT ON SO LONG....BUT WHEN I COVER SOMETHING...I GET CARRIED AWAY...AND I AM SORRY IF I FORGOT SOMEONE. I'M SURE I FORGOT QUITE A FEW, BUT MUST END THIS AND GET BACK TO WORK. REMEMBER..ANYTIME YOU WANT TO EXPOUND ON YOUR CLASS...DO IT ON THE KMAQ GUEST BOOK.

HAVE A GOOD WEEK AND KEEP COOL.

DENNIS VOY

 

SUNNY, BREEZY, LOW HUMIDITY AND HIGH OF 86 TODAY. NICE DAY.

MAQUOKETA BOYS BEAT WAUKON WEDNESDAY NIGHT. THEY PLAY DEWITT IN TOURNAMENT PLAY TOMORROW NIGHT HERE. SHOULD BE A GOOD GAME.
LEIGHTON HEPKER AND STEVE MOORE WILL BROADCAST IT ON KMAQ.
WINNER GOES ON.

MAQUOKETA GIRLS SHUT OUT CLINTON WEDNESDAY NIGHT...AND PLAY NORTH SCOTT HERE TONIGHT FOR THEIR LAST HOME REGULAR GAME. SENIOR NIGHT TONIGHT, HONORING SENIORS MILISSA JORGENSON AND ERIN MANSON. THAT'S RIGHT...JUST 2 SENIORS ON THE MCHS GIRLS SOFTBALL TEAM.

SHERI MELVOLD HAS BEEN ON VACATION THIS WEEK...AND WE'VE BEEN BROADCASTING FROM THE CEDAR COUNTY FAIR...SO I'VE BEEN BUSY.
HAVE NOT EVEN HAD A CHANCE ALL WEEK TO HAVE MY MORNING COFFEE BREAK AT THE DECKER HOTEL..WHERE SOME OF THE REAL NEWS OF THE DAY IS HEARD.

A MAQUOKETA WOMAN'S CAR, WHICH WAS STOLEN FROM HER RESIDENCE AT 313 NORTH OLIVE, WAS FOUND WRECKED IN ANDREW YESTERDAY MORNING. BRENDA WAGNER FILED THE STOLEN VEHICLE REPORT YESTERDAY MORNING AT 6 A.M.
THE CAR HAD BEEN STOLEN OVER NIGHT. AT 9 AM THURSDAY, ANDREW CITY CREWS FOUND THE CAR OVERTURNED AND ON ITS TOP ALONG NORTH FRANKLIN STREET IN ANDREW. NO DAMAGE ESTIMATE WAS GIVEN.

KMAQ HAS A BUS GOING TO THE FIRESIDE THEATRE SUNDAY, TO SEE "DRIVING MISS DAISY" ...AND THE BUS WILL BE ESCORTED BY LONGTIME KMAQ TRAFFIC DIRECTOR AND BOOKKEEPER, PAT WEIRUP...ALONG WITH HUSBAND VERNON, AND DAUGHTER BRENDA,WHO LIVES IN SEATTLE AND HAS BEEN VISITING HER PARENTS ALL THIS WEEK. BRENDA'S HUSBAND STAYED HOME TO WATCH OVER THE TWO FAMILY DOGS. THEY ARE MARINERS FANS...AND BRENDA HAD TO REMIND ME HOW WELL THEIR TEAM IS DOING. I WOULDN'T MIND A CARDINALS-MARINERS WORLD SERIES.

NO BIRTHS OR DEATHS TO REPORT TODAY.

I'LL BE GOING WITH NANCY TO HER 40TH CLASS REUNION TOMORROW NIGHT AT MICKEL'S CATERING DINING ROOM. YAWN YAWN.. JUST KIDDIN'....I'VE BEEN TO SOME BEFORE AND HAVE HAD A GOOD TIME.

IF YOU KNOW OF SOMEONE IN MAQUOKETA THAT CAN NOT BRING UP THIS DAILY REPORT...TELL THEM TO FIRST GO TO www.safeweb.com
AND THEN TYPE IN www.kmaq.com

DID YOU KNOW....I DIDN'T...THAT THE POP 7-UP WAS CREATED IN 1929?
"7" WAS SELECTED BECAUSE THE ORIGINAL CONTAINER WAS 7-OUNCES AND "UP" INDICATED THE DIRECTION OF THE BUBBLES.

I AM GOING TO START EDUCATING YOU GUYS A LITTLE ON THIS REPORT.

HAVE A NICE WEEKEND.

DENNIS VOY

 

SUNNY AND 84 TODAY.

NOT MUCH NEWS.

SCHOOL BOARD INTERVIEWED ANOTHER CANDIDATE FOR MIDDLE SCHOOL PRINICPAL
LAST NIGHT...BUT NO ONE HIRED.

RICH HAINSTOCK,OWNER OF NEW GOLF COURSE JUST SOUTH OF MAQUOEKETA, SPOKE TO ROTARY THIS NOON. COURSE WILL OPEN SATURDAY. ACTUALLY, A COUPLE CLASS RE-UNIONS THIS WEEKEND IN MAQUOKETA WILL PLAY IT FRIDAY NIGHT. IT IS JUST OVER 3,000 YARDS LONG. OPEN TO ANYONE. CARTS AVAILABLE. HAINSTOCK SAID TEES ARE IN GOOD SHAPE....FAREWAYS PRETTY GOOD AND GREENS NOT BAD. SEVERAL TOURNAMENTS ARE ALREADY SCHEDULED FOR THE NEW COURSE. IT HAS NO RESTAURANT. THERE ARE 17 BUILDING LOTS RIGHT ADJACENT TO COURSE...IN FACT...ALL 17 TOUCH THE FAREWAYS..AND THEY SELL FOR OVER $40,000,DEPENDING ON SIZE AND LOCATION. HE DID NOT SAY IF ANY ARE SOLD. HIS WIFE MARY JO IS INVOLVED IN THE GOLF COURSE TOO...IN ADDITION TO BEING THE NEW SUPERINTENDENT FOR THE DELWOOD SCHOOLS.

A TRUCK BELONGING TO MARTIN AG SERVICE, PRESTON AND MAQUOKETA...WAS VANDALIZED LAST WEEKEND WHILE PARKED IN THE FARM YARD OF RICHARD HAYWARD, NORTH OF MAQUOKETA. AROUND $2,000 WORTH OF DAMAGE.

THE NEW WATER PUMP IS WORKING FINE AT SPRINGBROOK TODAY.

TWO MAQUOKETA RESIDENTS HAVE BEEN FINED FOR LETTING A DOG RUN AT LARGE. HOLLY KROGMAN, AGE 22 AND KELLY NIMS, AGE 24, WERE CHARGED BY MAQUOKETA POLICE AFTER THE JUNE 26TH INCIDENT IN THE HEARTLAND EAST TRAILOR COURT. BOTH FINED $90 BY MAGISTRATE KEN WRIGHT.

HAVE YOU ADDED YOUR BIRTHDAY OR ANNIVERSARY YET TO THE SPEICAL SITE FOR THAT PURPOSE????...www.thecottage.maquoketa.com IF YOU DO...FIRST PUT IN YOUR NAME..AND ENTER IT. THEN DO IT OVER AND INSTEAD OF YOUR NAME,TYPE-IN YOUR CITY AND STATE. THEN ENTER ...AND CITY AND STATE WILL END UP RIGHT BELOW YOUR NAME. AFTER YOU TYPE YOUR NAME, YOU MIGHT ALSO...IN ( ) INCLUDE YOUR AGE OR ANNIVERARY
NUMBER. AND..THE SITE ALSO HAS A GUEST BOOK. THERE IS WHERE YOU COULD PUT YOUR E-MAIL OR SNAIL ADDRESS, SO SOMEONE COULD SEND YOU A CARD OR GIFT. YOU NEVER KNOW??

THANKS AGAIN FOR YOUR VISIT TODAY.

DENNIS VOY
 

HOT TODAY...90. COOLER WEATHER FOR REST OF WEEK.

THE MAQUOKETA SCHOOL BOARD HAS A SPEICAL MEETING TONIGHT TO INTERVIEW A 5TH CANDIDATE FOR MIDDLE SCHOOL PRINCIPAL.

SPRINGBROOK'S ONLY WATER PUMP WENT OUT LAST NIGHT, SO RESIDENTS TODAY ARE USING WATER SPARINGLY AND BOILING IT FIRST. NEW PUMP IS BEING INSTALLED. WATER WAS HAULED IN FROM BELLEVUE THIS MORNING...ACCORDING TO MAYOR JIM PORTZ.

A CHICAGO MAN, AGE 72, DROWNED IN MISSISSIPPI RIVER SATURDAY.
HE WAS STAYING WITH FRIENDS IN THOMSON,ILLINOIS AND WAS FISHING NEAR LOCK AND DAM 13.

ROSE COLLINS, AGE 75, OF MAQUOKETA, DIED YESTERDAY AFTERNOON AT THE MAQUOKETA HOSPITAL. SHE WORKED FOR STU'S DRY CLEANERS FOR OVER 20 YEARS...ALSO FOR CASEY'S CONVENIENCE STORE AND RON ANN'S FLORAL SHOPPE. SHE IS SURVIVED BY 1 DAUGHTER, SUE WALSH OF MAQUOKETA AND A SON IN KEOSAUQUA, AND A BROTHER, JACK HINZ OF MAQUOKETA AND A SISTER, ALMA KOONTZ OF MAQUOKETA.

DOUG AND SHIRLEY WINEGAR OF MAQUOKETA WILL CELEBRATE THEIR 50TH ON JULY 21ST AT THE VFW HALL. THEY WERE MARRIED ON JULY 20TH, 1951.
THEY HAVE 4 CHILDREN....LARRY IN JEFFERSON CITY, MISSOURI.....WARREN AND FAIRBURY, ILLINOIS....CRAIG AND BOB, BOTH IN MAQUOKETA....ALSO 11 GRANDCHILDREN AND ONE GREAT-GRANDDAUGHTER.

MAQUOKETA BOYS WON ANOTHER LAST NIGHT.

RIDICULOUS DAY IS A WEEK FROM TOMORROW IN MAQUOKETA.

KEEP COOL.

DENNIS VOY  

HOT AND HUMID TODAY...93. COOLER WEATHER BY WEDNESDAY.

THE RECORD HIGH IN IOWA...WAS 118...IN 1934...AT KEOKUK....SO SAYS
ERGON PENNINGROTH, WHO KNOWS A LOT...ABOUT THE WEATHER AND OTHER LOCAL HISTORY. HE SAYS, IT HAS BEEN AT LEAST 4 YEARS SINCE WE HAVE HIT 100 HERE IN MAQUOKETA.

MAQUOKETA BOYS BASEBALL TEAM LOST TO DAVENPORT ASSUMPTION SATURDAY, 8 TO 7...BLEW A LEAD. NOW 21 AND 12 RECORD.

MOTORCYCLE ACCIDENT YESTERDAY AFTERNOON 2 MILES WEST OF SABULA...A 2001 HARLEY OPERATED BY AN ILLINOIS MAN, WENT OUT OF CONTROL AND STRUCK A 2001 DODGE CARAVAN, DRIVEN BY MAN FROM MARION. NO INJURIES. SHERIFF DEPUTY ALLEN BARKET INVESTIGATED. LOTS OF DAMAGE TO BOTH VEHICLE. BARKER ALSO INVESTIGATED A SEMI ACCIDENT SATURDAY AFTERNOON NORTH OF MAQUOKETA...THAT RESULTED IN $25,000 DAMAGE TO THE SEMI FROM CUBA CITY, WISCONSIN.

BETTY TWIGG, AGE 79, OF DEWITT DIED FRIDAY AND WAS BURRIED TODAY.
SURVIVORS INCLUDED ONE DAUGHTER, CHERYLE FELDPAUSCH OF MAQUOKETA AND A SON, JERRY TWIGG IN DELMAR.

DALE VON SPRECKEN DIED AT HIS HOME LAST FRIDAY AT NAMPA, IDAHO. NO AGE GIVEN. BURIAL WILL BE THERE WEDNESDAY AND A LOCAL MEMORIAL SERVICE WILL BE HELD IN THE 1ST. LUTHERAN CHURCH IN MAQUOKETA ON JULY 21ST, AT 10 A.M. SURIVORS INCLUDE HS PARENTS, GLEN AND ROMONA VON SPECKEN OF MAQUOKETA.

KENNY GOODENOW, FORMER KMAQ STUDENT ANNOUNCER AND KIM TEBBE FROM ANDREW (BOTH ABOUT 22) WERE MARRIED SATURDAY AT SACRED HEART CATHOLIC CHURCH IN MAQUOKETA. NICE WEDDING...SHE EVEN SANG TO HIM AT END OF SERVICE. SHE JUST GRADUATED FROM COLLEGE AND HAS A JOB IN MINNEAPOLIS AND HE WORKS FOR FORD PLANT IN MINNEAPOLIS. MY BEST WISHES TO THEM...TWO FINE YOUNG PEOPLE. KENNY WAS A GOOD ANNOUNCER. ONLY TIME I REALLY GOT MAD AT HIM WAS WHEN HE SPUN HIS BIKE TIRE ON THE KMAQ HALLWAY CARPET....AND THE TIRE MARK NEVER CAME OUT. SINCE THEN, A RUNNER HAS COVERED IT. NICEST THING HE DID FOR ME WAS TO RESTORE A DRIVE-IN SPEAKER POST AND SPEAKERS ON A WOODEN BASE...SEVERAL YEARS AGO...STILL IN KMAQ'S FRONT RECEPTION AREA. HIS LICENSE NUMBER FOR SEVERAL YEARS WAS "DJ4KMAQ".

I WONDER IF I SANG TO NANCY AT OUR WEDDING? I DOUBT IT....COME TO THINK ABOUT IT...I REMEMBER VERY LITTLE ABOUT IT......NANCY ASSURES ME I DID SHOW UP AND WE WERE MARRIED. DO YOU REMEMBER EVERYTHING ABOUT YOUR WEDDING?

HAVE A GOOD WEEK WHEREEVER YOU ARE!

DENNIS VOY

 

SUNNY THIS MORNING, MOSTLY CLOUDY THIS AFTERNOON..AND HIGH OF 85.

THE MAQUOKETA BOYS WON ANOTHER, THEIR 20TH, LAST NIGHT AT MANCHESTER.

A MAQUOKETA TEEN-AGER, ANDREW MORGAN, AGE 19, HAS BEEN SENTENCED IN DISTRICT COURT TO NEARLY FOUR YEARS IN FEDERAL PRISON ON CHARGES OF SELLING METHAMPHETAMINE. HE ALSO MUST PAY OVER $2,000 IN RESTITUTION.

RALPH RODRIGUEZ, AGE 69, OF MAQUOKETA, DIED WEDNESDAY. HE WAS A COMMERCIAL FISHERMAN IN SAN DIEGO FOR 33 YEARS AND MOVED TO MAQUOKETA IN 1998. HE IS SURVIVED BY STEP-SONS RAYMOND CHASE OF MAQUOKETA AND KENNETH HALEY OF MAQUOKETA AND STEP-DAUGHTERS TAMMIE BESSE AND SHEILA BUSTAMANTE, BOTH OF MAQUOKETA.

ELLA MARIE HARDIN, AGE 95, OF MAQUOKETA, DIED YESTERDAY AT THE MAQUOKETA HOSPITAL. SHE WAS A RURAL JACKSON COUNTY SCHOOL TEACHER AND IS SURVIVED BY NIECES AND NEPHEWS.

LEAH AND NOLAN ZUGSCHWERDT OF MAQUOKETA WILL CELEBRATE THEIR 60TH ON JULY 11TH. THEY HAVE 2 SONS, CRAIG, OF ARLINGTON, VA. AND STEVEN IN BREMENTEN, WASH. AND A DUAGHTER, NANCY, IN CHADWICK, ILL. ZUG AS HE IS CALLED, WAS THE MAQUOKETA HIGH AG TEACHER FOR 20 YEARS AND THEN WAS CO-OWNER OF B & Z FEED MILL FOR AROUND 20 YEARS UNTIL RETIRING.
HE AND LEAH ARE ON-THE-GO CONSTANTLY....STILL VERY ACTIVE IN THE COMMUNITY.

WONDER WHAT HAPPENED TO NANCY JACOBS??....MY LONGTIME MANAGER OF KFC WHEN I OWNED THE RESTAURANT. HEAR SHE'S WORKING SOMEPLACE IN BELLEVUE. HAVN'T SEEN MARV AND NANCY FOR OVER 6 MONTHS.

HEARD TODAY THAT A BOY WAS BORN JULY 3RD TO SAGE AND MARIE ROSENFELS.
SAGE IS THE FORMER STAR QUARTERBACK FOR THE IOWA STATE CYCLONES AND NOW WITH THE WASHINGTON REDSKINS. THEY NAMED THE FUTURE FOOTBALL PLAYER PEYTON. GRANDPARENTS ARE ROBERT AND JAMIE ROSENFELS OF MAQUOKETA AND FLORIAN AND KAREN STEFFEN OF MAQUOKETA.

HAVE A GOOD WEEKEND.

DENNIS VOY


 

ANOTHER TERRIFIC DAY IN MAQUOKETA...SUNNY, LOW HUMIDITY AND HIGH AROUND 80.

FOUR MEN WERE TREATED AND RELEASED FOR KNIFE CUTS FOLLOWING AN INCIDENT AT LAMOTTE LAST NIGHT. SCOTT YAROLEM, AGE 22, OF MAQUOKETA WAS TREATED AND RELEASED FROM THE HOSPITAL HERE IN MAQUOKETA. THE OTHER 3 WERE NOT FROM MAQUOKETA. THE INCIDENT BEGAN LAST NIGHT WHEN SCOTT YAROLEM PUT FIREWORKS INSIDE AN ALUMINUM POP OR BEER CAN AND IGNITED IT. THE CAN EXPLODED IN THE DOWNTOWN AREA WHERE THE JULY 4TH COMMUNITY PICNIC WAS IN PROGRESS. IT CAUSED SHRAPNEL TO FLY FROM THE EXPLOSION AND A GROUP OF PEOPLE THEN CHASED YAROLEM AND CAUGHT HIM A BLOCK AWAY. YAROLEM AND THE OTHER 3 THEN GOT INTO A FIGHT AND ALL 4 RECEIVED MULTIPLE LACERATIONS FROM KNIVES AND A BEER BOTTLE, ACCORDING TO A JACKSON COUNTY DEPUTY. CHARGES AGAINST THE 4 ARE PENDING.

VIRL BANOWETZ OF BANOWETZ ANTIQUES REPORTED THAT SOMETIME IN THE LAST TWO WEEKS, SOMEONE TOOK A WOODEN PEDAL CAR WITH 3 WHEELS AND WINGS. IT WAS USED IN THE MOVIE "F.I.S.T." SHOT IN DUBUQUE AND IT HAS A VALUE OF $12,000.

KRISTINO'S PIZZA OWNER, JASON HOSCH, SAID THE BUSINESS IN DOWNTOWN MAQUOKETA WAS ENTERED SOMETIME BETWEEN 9 TUESDAY NIGHT AND 4 YESTERDAY AFTERNOON AND AN UNKNOWN AMOUNT OF CASH WAS TAKEN.

JACKSON COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE WERE TOLD THAT SOMEONE ENTERED THE GND BAIT SHOP AT SABULA AND TOOK AN 18-FOOT BOAT AND TRAILER, VALUED AT AROUND $10,000.

TIM AND TAMARA WILCOX OF DAYTON, MAINE, ARE PARENTS OF A BOY BORN YESTERDAY. GREAT GRANDPARENTS RE DON AND RUTH CASTEEL OF MAQUOKETA.

DAN AND MELISSA TREANTON OF MAQUOKETA HAD A BOY SUNDAY AT THE LOCAL HOSPITAL.

A COUPLE GOOD ENTRIES TO CHECK ON THE KMAQ GUEST BOOK. ONE FROM A 1972 MAQUOKETA HIGH GRADUATE WHO SAID WHAT NEEDED TO BE SAID ABOUT CLASS REUNIONS. SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT! FOR MANY, A CLASS REUNION IS A BORING EVENT, BECAUSE PEOPLE DON'T "MIX " LIKE THEY SHOULD. REMEMBER THAT WHEN YOU GO TO YOUR NEXT! I WILL!
ALSO..CLASS OF 62 WANTS TO HEAR FROM GRADS. AND..NICE ENTRY BY PHILLIP TRACY IN WEST DES MOINES. HE HAS BEEN BLIND SINCE HE WAS ABOUT 6 MONTHS OLD AND HE HAS A COMPUTER PROGRAM THAT CAN READ WHAT IS ON THE COMPUTER SCREEN. HE IS NOW CHECKING THIS REPORT DAILY.
HE ALSO MADE A GUEST BOOK ENTRY. HE SAID IS GOOD AT THE KEYBOARD AND EVERYTHING HE TYPES IS READ BACK TO HIM BY HIS COMPUTER. AFTER THE ENTRY, HE THEN CALLED ME AND WE HAD A NICE CHAT ON THE PHONE.
HE LIKES TO TALK....AND IT WAS A MOST INTERESTING CONVERSATION.
GOOD HEARING FROM YOU PHILLIP. HE WOULD LIKE OTHERS TO E-MAIL HIM, SO PLEASE DO! AND...CHECK OUT THAT BAKERY AT ONSLOW IF YOU ARE EVER OVER THAT WAY.

AND ON TOP OF IT ALL...PHILLIP IS A ST. LOUIS CARDINAL FAN.

ALBERT PUHOLS, THEIR 3RD BASEMEN, WILL BE PLAYING IN THE ALL-STAR GAME NEXT WEEK. WATCH FOR HIM! JUST LAST NIGHT AGAIN, HE HAD 3 HITS..AND SHOULD BE THE NATIONAL LEAGUE ROOKIE-OF-THE-YEAR IF HE KEEPS PLAYING WELL.

THANKS FOR STOPPING BY.

DENNIS VOY

 

HAPPY 4TH OF JULY.

BEAUTIFUL DAY IN MAQUOKETA.

FRUSTRATING DAY AT KMAQ....THE FM STATION WENT ON THE AIR AT 5:55 A.M. AND 10 MINUTES LATER, IT WENT OFF. ENGINEER TOM MESSERLI WENT OUT THERE...AND ONE THING RAN TO ANOTHER AND WE DIDN'T MAKE IT BACK ON UNTIL 11...SO WE WERE NOT ABLE TO BROADCAST THE 4TH OF JULY PARADE AT DEWITT. I SAW IT THOUGH..AND IT WAS GOOD...LASTED 65-MINUTES. LEIGHTON HEPKER BROADCAST THE BELLEVUE PARADE ON KMAQ-AM.

THE BELLEVUE HERITAGE DAY QEEEN IS ALYSSA YAKLIN, DAUGHTER OF FRANK AND ALEXIA OF BELLEVUE. THE WINNER OF THE NEW TRUCK IN THE CHAMBER RAFFLE AT BELLEVUE, IS CY PLOESSL OF BELLEVUE.

A MAQUOKETA MAN IS IN CRITICAL CONDITION IN IOWA CITY AFTER A 3-VEHICLE ACCIDENT NEAR BALDWIN LAST NIGHT AROUND 10. HE IS JOE C. THOMAS, AGE 33, OF MAQUOKETA.

THE MAQUOKETA BOYS LOST A DOUBLEHEADER TO DEWITT LAST NIGHT.
THEY FINISHED UP THE BIG BEND SEASON WITH A RECORD OF 8 WINS AND 6 LOSSES...AND OVERALL THEY ARE AT 19 AND 11. NOT BAD.

THE MAQUOKETA GIRLS ALSO LOST A DOUBLEHEADER TO DEWITT LAST NIGHT AND THEIR CONFERENCE RECORD IS 2 AND 10 AND OVERALL RECORD IS 7 WINS AND 26 LOSSES.

MARY EGGERS WAS IN TO SEE ME YESTERDAY. SHE AND DALE FARM NORTH OF MAQUOKETA. IN TO TELL ME HER SON DAN REGULARLY CHECKS THIS DAILY REPORT. DAN AND HIS WIFE LISA AND TWO KIDS, 12 AND 4, MOVED TO BILLINGS, NORTH DAKOTA ... FROM DENVER. DAN, IN COMPUTER TECH, STILL WORKS IN DENVER AND COMMUTES VIA AIR. DAN WAS A 77-GRAD AT ANDREW AND LISA (PERSHING) IS FROM MAQUOKETA. HE HAS A BROTHER LIVING IN OLATHA, KANSAS, BUT I FORGOT TO GET INFORMATION ABOUT HIM.
ANYWAY, THANKS DAN FOR CHECKING IN REGULARLY. YOUR MOTHER AND DAD HAVE BEEN GOOD FRIENDS OF MINE FOR A LONG TIME....GOOD BOWLERS AND GAMBLERS AND GOOD LISTENERS TO KMAQ.

THAT'S ITS FOR NOW.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY AMERICA!

DENNIS VOY  

SEVEN-TENTHS OF AN INCH OF RAIN FELL THIS MORNING....A WELCOME BY FARMERS. REST OF MORNING WAS CLOUDY AND SUNNY THIS AFTERNOON, WITH HIGH OF 83.

JIM BOLLMAN IS THE NEW 3RD WARD MAQUOKETA COUNCILMAN, NAMED TO SERVE UNTIL THE NOVEMBER ELECTION. HE HAS SERVED BEFORE. HE IS NOT SURE YET IF HE WILL RUN FOR A FULL-TERM IN NOVEMBER.

NO EVENTS IN MAQUOKETA TOMORROW. JULY 4TH CELEBRATIONS IN THIS AREA WITH PARADES, WILL BE IN BELLEVUE, DEWITT, OXFORD JUNCTION, LAMOTTE AND CLINTON. DUBUQUE WILL HAVE THEIR BIG FIREWORKS TONIGHT.
MAQUOKETA'S FIREWORKS WERE LAST SATURDAY NIGHT AFTER THE RACES.
BELLEVUE HAD TO CANCEL ITS WATER SKI SHOW BECAUSE THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER IS TOO HIGH.

NO BIRTHS OR DEATHS...AND THAT WILL DO IT FOR TODAY.

HAVE A HAPPY AND SAFE 4TH OF JULY.

DENNIS VOY

 

COOLER AND SUNNY TODAY...HIGH OF 78.

GENERAC,THE NEW INDUSTRY LOCATING IN MAQUOKETA AND BUILDING A NEW 145,000 SQUARE FOOT BUILDING, NEARLY COMPLETED, ANNOUNCED TODAY THAT IT WILL HAVE AN OPEN HOUSE ON THURSDAY, JULY 26TH, FROM 3 TIL 8 P.M.
AND A RIBBON CUTTING IS PLANNED AT 4 P.M. FOR THE MAQUOKETA MUNICIPAL ELECTRIC UTILITY'S NEW POWER PLAN ACROSS THE STREET FROM GENERAC.
ABOUT 250 PEOPLE WILL BE HIRED TO START WORK THIS SUMMER.

ED CURLEY OF THE MAQUOKETA AIRPORT REPORTED THAT SOMEONE GOT INTO THE OFFICE OUT THERE SATURDAY NIGHT AND BROKE INTO THE CASH BOX AND TOOK ABOUT $130.

JIM BOLLMAN MAY BE APPOINTED A CITY COUNCILMAN TONIGHT AT THE MAQUOKETA COUNCIL MEETING. HE'S HELD THE JOB BEFORE.

THE MAQUOKETA BOYS WON THEIR 13TH IN A ROW SATURDAY MORNING OVER DECORAH BUT LOST THE 2ND GAME.

BUD HUMMEL, AGE 80, OF DEWITT, DIED YESTERDAY. OWNED THE GAMBLES STORE DOWN THERE FOR OVER 30 YEARS.

ANSIL TOUTSCH, SON OF NICK AND NANCY, IS HOME FOR VACATION. HE'S
AN ADMIRAL (EQUAL TO A ONE-STAR GENERAL)IN THE NAVY. IS SINGLE.
HIS MOM AND SISTER MANDY ARE ON AN OVERSEAS TRIP FOR VACATION.

CLYDE HARPER, MANAGER OF EDWARD JONES OFFICE, GOT MARRIED A WEEK AGO TODAY AND IS NOW LIVING IN BELLEVUE. HIS BRIDE AND FAMILY OWN AND OPERATE THE POPULAR WAGNER'S CONVENIENCE STORE ON SOUTH RIVERVIEW IN BELLEVUE. CLYDE TOLD ME HE WILL COMMUTE DAILY TO HIS WEST PLATT OFFICE AND CONTINUE TO BE A FELLOW ROTARY MEMBER HERE IN TOWN.

MORE INTERESTING NEW ENTRIES ON THE KMAQ GUEST BOOK.

THANKS FOR THE VISIT TODAY.

DENNIS VOY  

HOT AGAIN TODAY...HIGH OF 90.

GOOD DAY FOR THE FLAG FESTIVAL. CHRIS NISSEN REPORTS THAT THERE WERE 75 TEAMS IN THE ADVENTURE RACE, UP FROM 50 LAST YEAR....CANOE, BIKE AND THEN WALK..... STARTING OFF AT CANTON. THE BEST TIME WAS 2 HOURS AND 45 SECONDS...BY THE 4-MALES TEAM. AWARDS WERE PRESENTED AT 1:30 THIS AFTERNOON IN FRONT OF THE DECKER HOTEL, AND BROADCAST ON KMAQ.

OTHER HIGHLIGHTS OF THE DAY: THE WINNER OF THE BIKE RAFFLE, WAS DAVE JOHNSON OF MAQUOKETA STATE BANK...HE WON THE $650 RACER BIKE.
THE WINNER OF THE FAMILY LIFETIME MEMBERSHIP TO THE ARC, MAQUOKETA'S PROPOSED RECREATION CENTER, WAS JUDY BOWLING, OWNER OF THE LOFT.

THE CHAMBER ANNOUNCED THEIR BEAUTIFICATION 2001 WINNERS. THE RESINDENTIAL WINNERS AT 514 E. MAPLE STREET WERE KATHERINE
GIGIANO AND MARSHA MEYERS...GETTING A BANNER AND 25-CHAMBER BUCKS.
THE BUSINESS BEAUTIFICATIN WINNER WAS THE COTTAGE SANDWICH AND GIFT SHOP, OWNED BY KAREN THOMAS AND NANCY VOY. THEY ALSO RECEIVE
25 CHAMBER BUCKS AND A BANNER.

THE GRACE TUBBS VOLUNTEER OF THE YEAR AWARD WENT TO KAREN BREITBACH, CO-OWNER OF BREITBACH FLOOR COVERING IN MAQUOKETA. $500 CASH WILL BE GIVEN TO HER FAVORITE CHARITY AND SHE RECEIVES A WATERFORD CLOCK.

EIGHT PEOPLE WERE INJURED IN A 2-CAR HEAD-ON ACCIDENT AROUND 6:30 LAST NIGHT WEST OF MAQUOKETA. THE DRIVERS WERE BROTHERS....JOHN RALSTON OF MONMOUTH AND J.R. RALSTON OF MONMOUTH. TWO WERE TAKEN BY AIR-CARE HELICOPTER TO A DAVENPORT HOSPITAL WHERE THEIR CONDITION THIS MORNING WAS LISTED AS GOOD. THEY ARE JOHN RALSTON AND
CHRISTINA RALSTON. J.R...JAMES..RALSTON IS IN GOOD CONDITION AT THE LOCAL HOSPITAL. DETAILS ON THE ACCIDENT HAVE STILL NOT BEEN FILED BY THE STATE TROOPER WHO INVESTIGATED.

HELEN ELLIS, AGE 87, OF MAQUOKETA DIED YESTERDAY AT A HOSPITAL IN PEORIA, ILLINOIS, NEAR WHERE HER DAUGHTER LIVES. SHE IS WELL-KNOWN HERE, ACTIVE IN THE PEO CHAPTER AND HOSPITAL AUXILIARY.
SHE IS SURVIVED BY THE ONE DAUGHTER, GRANDCHILDREN AND A BROTHER.
HER HUSBAND WAS THE LATE DON ELLIS.

COOLER WEATHER IS COMING FOR THE JULY 4TH HOLIDAY.

HAVE A GOOD HOLIDAY SHORTENED WEEK.

DENNIS VOY




 

FRIDAY, CONTINUED:

ALICE CORNELIUS, AGE 95, OF ANDREW, DIED YESTERDAY. SHE AND HER HUSBAND HELPED START CORNELIUS SEED CORN. SHE IS SURVIVED BY A SON PAUL IN LEXINGTON, KENTUCKY AND A DAUGHTER-IN-LAW WANDA CORNELIUS OF RURAL ANDREW.

HARRY BADRICK, AGE 85, OF PRESTON,DIED YESTERDAY.....LONGTIME PRESTON BUSINESSMAN. MANY OF YOU KNOW HIS TWIN SONS, ROBERT BADRICK OF PRESTON AND RICHARD OF MILES.

I STOPPED IN AND LOOKED AROUND AT THE NEW GENERAC PLANT THIS AFTERNOON, SOUTH OF MAQUOKETA. THEY HAVE PAVED THE PARKING LOT, SEEDED THE LAWN, AND WERE PLANTING ALL KINDS OF TREES. THE INSIDE IS ALL PAINTED AND NEARLY COMPLETE. NO OFFICE EQUIPMENT OR MACHINERY IS IN BUILDING YET, BUT LOOKS LIKE THE BUILDING IS READY FOR IT.
A BEAUTIFUL BUILDING AND GROUNDS.

THE NEW TIMBER CITY GOLF COURSE WILL NOT OPEN TOMORROW. FOR THE 2ND TIME, THE OPENING HAS BEEN POSTPONED...THIS TIME UNTIL JULY 14TH. OWNER RICH HAINSTOCK IS PRETTY SURE IT WILL BE READY THEN. THE GREENS HAVE NOT BEEN READY, BUT ARE TAKING SHAPE.

MEDICAL ASSOCIATES OF MAQUOKETA ARE CELEBRATING THEIR 25TH ANNIVERSARY. DOCTORS PAUL KOOB, RAYMOND HAMILTON, PEDRO ATIENZA, WILLIAM OTTEMAN AND ERIC PETERSEN AND CAROL GORNEY, P.A.C.
THEIR OFFICE IS ON QUARRY STREET....ON THE CORNER. IT WAS ORIGINALLY THE LOCATION OF DR. F. J. SWIFT'S PRACTICE.

HAVE A NICE WEEKEND.

DENNIS VOY  

DRY AND HOT TODAY AGAIN..HIGH 89.

THE MAQUOKETA BOYS NOW HAVE WON 10 IN A ROW, AFTER THEIR DOUBLE-HEADER WIN OVER ANAMOSA LAST NIGHT. TOMORROW, THEY FACE #2 RANKED DECORAH HERE AT THE MCHS DIAMOND.

OBIE'S BAR AND GRILL CELEBRATES THEIR 20TH ANNIVERSARY ALL DAY TOMORROW. FORMER SHERIFF BOB LYON'S WILL BE AT THE OUTDOOR GRILL.
OBIE WAS A GOOD FRIEND OF BOB. THE FOUNDER, OBIE, DIED WHEN HIS CAR FELL ON HIM WHILE CHANGING THE OIL....QUITE A FEW YEARS AGO.
HIS WIFE RUNS THE BUSINESS NOW AND IT IS STILL KNOWN FOR ITS TACOS.

THE MAQUOKETA HIGH SCHOOL CLASS OF 52 IS STARTING TO MAKE PLANS FOR THEIR 50TH CLASS REUNION IN SEPTEMBER 2002. CONTACT J.C. ENGEL
IF YOU WANT TO HELP OR HAVE IDEAS.

JERRY RASMUSSEN IS 81 TODAY.

CHARLIE CLASEN, MY SON-IN-LAW IS 46 TODAY.

JOHN FAGERLAND, LONGTIME BUSINESSMAN, WILL BE THE PARADE MARSHALL FOR THE JACKSON COUNTY FAIR PARADE NEXT MONTH. JOHN AND PARTNER ED TUBBS HAVE HAD MAJORITY INTEREST IN THE MAQUOKETA STATE BANK SINCE 1965. JOHN HAS BEEN ACTIVE IN PROMOTING THE FAIR OVER THE YEARS...INCLUDING SERVING ON THE PEARSON BOARD, AND...HELPING WITH ROTARY BINGO EACH FAIR. HE IS STILL ACTIVE IN THE BANK AND IN MANY COMMUNITY EVENTS. GOOD SELECTION FOR PARADE MARSHALL.

THE ANNUAL MAQUOKETA FLAG FESTIVAL IS TOMORROW IN MAQUOKETA. MAIN STREET WILL BE CLOSED DURING THE EVENT AND THERE WILL BE MANY FOOD STANDS IN OPERATION. ALSO, A 3 ON 3 BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT, KIDS GAMES, VINTAGE CAR AND MOTORCYCLE SHOW AND STARTING AT 8 IN MORNING, THE BIG ADVENTURE RACE. IT STARTS WITH CANOES AT CANTON. TEAMS...4 CONTESTANTS IN A TEAM...CANOE FOR 8 MILES DOWN THE MAQUOKETA RIVER, THEN BIKE 14 MILES, THEN RUN 3 MILES AND IT ENDS UP IN DOWNTOWN MAQUOKETA, HERE AT KMAQ. THE EVENT ENDS WITH FREE FIREWORKS AT THE FAIRGROUNDS AFTER THE STOCK CAR RACES.

RANDY STARK, AGE 14, RAN HIS BIKE INTO A CAR YESTERDAY AND ESCAPED SERIOUS INJURY.

AMANDA FELDERMAN, AGE 16, BACKED-UP AND HIT RANDY SPRINGER'S CAR LAST NIGHT. $1,500 DAMAGE TO FELDERMAN'S CAR AND $3,500 TO SPRINGERS MERCURY. ELSIE SPRINGER, RANDY'S MOTHER, RECEIVED MINOR INJURIES.

CORREY KILBURG, OF MAQUOKETA, AGE 22, WAS ARRESTED AT 2 THIS MORNING FOR PROVIDING ALCOHOL TO MINORS.

JOHN EDWARDS, AGE 50, OF MAQUOKETA, WAS CHARGED WITH OWI LAST NIGHT. HE HAD STOPPED AT THE MIDWAY MARKET IN ANDREW AND WAS STUMBLING FROM HIS VEHICLE AND REFUSED CHEMICAL TESTING.

I WILL POST THIS NOW AND MORE TO FOLLOW ON PART-2 OF TODAY'S REPORT




 

AGAIN..HOT, DRY, SUNNY AND HIGH OF 88.

HAD LUNCH TODAY WITH ST. REP. BOB OSTERHAUS...AT HOV'S PUB IN DOWNTOWN MAQUOKETA...HOME OF THE BEST CHEESEBURGERS AROUND.
LOVE CHEESE, ESPECIALLY DURING JUNE DAIRY MONTH. BOB LOOKING GOOD....HAS NOT HAD A DESSERT SINCE CHRISTMAS..WHAT WILLPOWER.
RAN INTO DENNIS, MARY AND ADAM BECK DINING THERE TOO. DENNIS AND MARY ARE HEADING FOR DOOR COUNTY WISCONSIN TOMORROW...BACK TO SOME OF MARY'S HOME TURF. IF HE DRIVES MARY, POKE HIM OFTEN AS AT HIS AGE, HE PROBABLY COULD DOZE-OFF ON YOU. HOV'S PUB WAS BUSY .. AT THE BAR AND THE TABLES. I WAS TEMPTED TO HAVE A TAP BEER WITH MY BURGER, BUT WENT WITH A DIET PEPSI INSTEAD.

THE MCHS BOYS WON THEIR 8TH IN A ROW LAST NIGHT, A NON-CONF GAME, HERE, BEATING DUBUQUE SENIOR 7 TO 5. THEY HOST ANAMOSA IN A DOUBLE-HEADER TONIGHT.

PHIL RASMUSSEN, MCHS GRADUATE, SON OF THE JERRY RASMUSSEN'S, IS THE MANAGER OF THE BIG ALCOA ALUMINUM PLANT IN WENATCHEE, WASHINGTON.
BEEN THERE TWO YEARS. NOW, HIS PLANT IS ON THE VERGE OF A LAY OFF OF AROUND 300 WORKERS, SHUTTING DOWN WHAT THEY CALL THE POTLINE.
ABOUT 400 WOULD CONTINUE TO WORK. THE PLAN IS TO STOP PRODUCING ALUMINIM FOR 15 MONTHS.

RAN INTO STEVE McAREAVY AT OSTERHAUS PHARMACY THIS MORNING. HE IS IN TOWN FOR HIGH SCHOOL REUNION THIS WEEK. HIS OLDER BROTHER KEVIN, ALSO IN TOWN FOR HIS REUNION. ONE LIVES IN NORTH CAROLINA AND OTHER IN FLORIDA...NOT SURE WHO LIVES WHERE. SISTER KATE, FROM CEDAR RAPIDS, WILL ALSO BE HERE THIS WEEKEND, BUT NOT SISTER MARY IN FLORIDA. DAD, DOC, IS FIGHTING A BOUT WITH CANCER AND HAS BEEN A COUPLE YEARS. MOM, IMOGENE, WILL BE A BUSY PERSON WITH ALL THE GUESTS IN TOWN. FINE FAMILY. STEVE WAS GOING GOLFING TODAY WITH FELLOW CLASSMATE BOB SMITH. DON MEYER FROM OKLAHOMA IS ON THE WAY UP FOR REUNION TOO, SO MORE GOLD TOMORROW, NO DOUBT.

MAQUOKETA'S CABLE TV IS GOING TO BE UPGRADED, BY DECEMBER 1ST, UNDER NEW OWNERSHIP. THE UPGRADE WILL ALLOW MANY MORE CHANNELS AND PROVIDE FOR MORE LOCAL-RIGINATION REMOTE-SITES AROUND TOWN.
RATES MAY GO UP TOO.

SO MUCH FOR A THURSDAY.

DENNIS VOY







 

NICE HOT DAY AGAIN..CLOSE TO 90.

SAW MERY BECK AT SUBWAY....THANKS MARY FOR ASKING ABOUT MY RIGHT BIG TOE.....ITS FINE EVERYBODY. LEFT, SPRAINED-ONE GETTING BETTER TOO.
AND THAT MUD HOLE AT THE DRIVE-IN HAS BEEN FILLED-IN WITH GRAVEL.
SPEAKING OF DRIVE-IN....PEARL HARBOR IS DOING VERY WELL OUT THERE.
MARY....HOW ABOUT DOING A GUEST BOOK ENTRY ON THE BECK CLAN SO EVERYONE WILL KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON IN YOUR BUSY FAMILY!
I HAVE KNOWN MARY AND DENNIS SINCE 1976....AND THEIR TWO SONS BOTH WORKED FOR ME AT THE DOWNTOWN THEATRE WHEN THEY WERE TEENS. MARY IS A BIG EXECUTIVE OUT IN THE INDUSTRIAL PARK. THEY HAVE A BEAUTIFUL RURAL PLACE JUST OFF THE CAVES ROAD...KEPT UP NICELY AND MOSTLY BY DENNIS.

THE SON OF A DELMAR MAN, ANDREW CLAEYS OF LONG GROVE AND SON OF JOE, WAS ONE OF 3 PEOPLE RESCUED BY THE NEW JERSEY STATE POLICE EARLY SUNDAY MORNING...AFTER BEING LOST AT SEA FOR ABOUT 12 HOURS. THEIR PERSONAL WATERCRAFT BROKE DOWN DURING A THUNDERSTORM. NONE OF THE 3 WERE INJURED.

A CESSNA PLANE LANDED SAFELY ON 215TH STREET IN CLINTON COUNTY, NEAR DEWITT, THIS MORNING, BECAUSE OR A PROPELLER PROBLEM. LANDED ON THE HIGHWAY AND NO INJURIES. A DAVENPORT INSTRUCTOR AND HIS STUDENT.

THIRY-ONE BUSINESS PLACES IN JACKSON COUNTY WERE CHECKED LAST MONTH TO SEE IF THEY WOULD SELL TOBACCO TO A MINOR. FIVE WERE CHARGED.
CHARGED: TYLER KUHLMAN, AGE 21, AT B & C LIQUORS, MAQUOKETA...
BOBBIE BARTELS, BALDWIN, AT SPAIN OIL, MAQUOKETA.....ANNA MAE STEFFEN, AGE 71, OF MONMOUTH, AT THE HIDEAWAY NIGHT CLUB, MONMOUTH....
ROGER HARRINGTON, AGE 30, OF MONMOUTH, AT THE HOUND DOG BAR, MONMOUTH....AND HERMAN HALVERSON OF MILES AT K & L HILLTOP RESTAURANT, RURAL MILES-GREEN ISLAND.

MAJOR FIRE AT THE PIZZA HUT IN DEWITT EARLY YESTERDAY MORNING. WILL NEED A WHOLE NEW ROOF AND BE CLOSED FOR 2 OR 3 MONTHS.

THE DEWITT HOSPITAL FOUDATION RECEIVED OVER 500-THOUSAND-DOLLARS FROM TWO ESTATES..THAT OF JOHN ANDERSON OF DEWITT AND CLARA HILBERT OF DELMAR.

CHALETTE GERISCHER HIT A DEER ON HIGHWAY 61, NEAR MAQUOKETA.

ANOTHER 2001 CAR DAMAGED AT BRAD DEERY'S...KEYED...A NEW DODGE INTREPID...DAMAGE ABOUT $500.

THE "K" ON FRONT OF KMAQ BUILDING LIGHT WENT OUT. EACH LETTER IS AN INDIVIDUAL SIGN. ITS FIXED NOW...$283.10. GLAD IT LIGHTS UP AGAIN EACH NIGHT.

GOT A FLAG TO FLY ON JULY 4TH? SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT, IF NOT.

SEE YOU TOMORROW.

DENNIS VOY






 

ANOTHER HOT AND SUNNY DAY...NEAR 90.

MUST BE 115 IN ARIZONA.

PRESTON HAS A NEW POLICE CHIEF! MAQUOKETA POLICE OFFICER CURT GRUVER GOT THE JOB LAST NIGHT, WHEN HE WAS APPOINTED BY MAYOR STEVE RITENOUR. HE REPLACES RUSS LONG, WHO WAS HIRED AS JACKSON COUNTY'S ADDITIONAL DEPUTY. GRUVER WILL BE PAID $14.33 AN HOUR. HE HAS BEEN A MAQUOKETA OFFICER FOR 21 YEARS. GRUVER SAID HE AND HIS WIFE CHY PLAN TO MOVE TO PRESTON WITHIN THE YEAR. ONE OF THE FIRST PROJECTS GRUVER WILL BE WORKING ON IS AN AGREEMENT WITH MILES, IOWA, A SHORT DISTANCE FROM PRESTON, TO PROVIDE LAW ENFORCEMENT FOR THAT COMMUNITY TOO. CURRENTLY, MILES IS CONTRACTED WITH GARY TRAFFORD, BUT TRAFFORD RETIRES AT THE END OF THE MONTH. GRUVER'S SON, CHAD, IS THE POLICE CHEIF AT SABULA. HE LEFT THE MAQUOKETA PD EARLIER THIS YEAR. OFFICER DWIGHT WEST RECENTLY RESIGNED, SO THE MAQUOKETA PD IS NOW SHORT 2 OFFICERS, BUT HAS HAD 24 APPLICATIONS.

THE MAQUOKETA COUNCIL MET LAST NIGHT BUT DID NOT APPOINT A NEW 3RD WARD COUNCILMAN, TO REPLACE JERRY BOWEN WHO RESIGNED. FORMER COUNCILMAN JIM BOLLMAN WAS AT THE MEETING AND SPECULATION IS THAT HE WOULD LIKE THE JOB AND MAY GET IT UNTIL THE NOVEMBER ELECTION.

ROB ROTMAN OF CHICAGO JUST STOPPED IN TO SAY HELLO. HE GOT TO SEE 'THE PRODUCER' HIT PLAY WHEN IT OPENED IN CHICAGO BEFORE GOING TO NEW YORK. HE'S WRITING A PLAY THESE DAYS...BUT I DIDN'T QUIZ AS TO WHAT IT WILL BE ABOUT. HE LOVES THE LIVE THEATRE. ALWAYS ENJOY A VISIT WITH ROB.

JEANNETTE TANNER, AGE 89, OF MAQUOKETA,DIED SUNDAY AT THE CRESTRIDGE NURSING HOME. SHE WORKED AT CLINTON ENGINES ON THE ASSEMBLY LINE FOR MANY YEARS AND IS SURVIVED BY 3 GRANDCHILDREN.

EDWARD KEAS, AGE 63, OF MAQUOKETA AND FORMERLY OF CHICAGO, DIED LAST WEEK AT HIS HOME. HE HAS LIVED IN MAQUOKETA SINCE THE SPRING OF 2000 AND HAS NO LOCAL SURVIVORS.

JACK BROMAN FROM ATLANTA WAS UP VISITING HIS FOLKS THIS PAST WEEK AND HAS NOW RETURNED HOME. HIS DAD BROUGHT HIM TO OUR COFFEE GROUP THE OTHER DAY AND IT WAS GOOD SEEING HIM. STILL A MUSIC PROFESSOR DOWN THERE. I TOLD HIM TO CHECK THIS DAILY REPORT AND HE SAID HE WOULD.
HOPEFULLY, HE'LL PUT AN ENTRY IN THE GUEST BO0K, LETTING US KNOW WHAT HE HAS BEEN UP TOO OVER THE YEARS.

CHECK THE GUEST BOOK...IT HAS SOME NEW ENTRIES. AN INTERESTING GUEST BOOK ENTRY ON 'THE COTTAGE' GUEST BOOK AT www.thecottage.maquoketa.com.

Saw PEARL HARBOR last night....good movie.

KEEP COOL.

DENNIS VOY





 

THE WEATHER WAS BEAUTIFUL THIS PAST WEEKEND AND NICE TODAY ALSO, WITH A HIGH OF 89.

BURGLARY FRIDAY NIGHT AT HOOF, HORN AND HOME OUTFITTERS IN MAQUOKETA. A DOOR WAS FORCED OPEN AND TAKEN, A LAP TOP COMPUTER AND OTHER MISCELLANEOUS THINGS.

STEVE VAN HECKE OF 85TH STREET, RURAL MAQUOKETA, REPORTED THAT SOMEONE BROKE INTO HIS HORSE BARN JUNE 19TH AND TAKEN, A SADDLE VALUED AT $1,250 AND OTHER HORSE ITEMS.

AMANDA PUETZ AND BRANDON CHEHAK OF MAQUOKETA HAD A GIRL LAST THURSDAY AT THE LOCAL HOSPITAL.

YOLANDA HOWELL, AGE 50, OF MAQUOKETA DIED FRIDAY EVENING AT A DAVENPORT HOSPITAL. SHE IS SURVIVED BY 2 DAUGHTERS, INCLUDING ANGIE HOWEL OF MAQUOKETA...ALSO SURVIVED BY HER FATHER IN GUTHRIE CENTER, AND 3 SONS.

DONALD "DUDE" REICHLING, AGE 86, DIED YESTERDAY AT HIS HOME.
HE OWNED AND OPERATED DUDE'S 66 SERVICE STATION IN MAQUOKETA FOR 47 YEARS, RETIRING IN 1992. HE WAS A NAVY VETERAN, DURING
WWII.....WAS AT PEARL HARBOR WHEN IT WAS BOMBED.
HE IS SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE, WILMA, A SISTER-IN-LAW, HELEN REICHLING,
AND NEICES, AND NEPHEWS. SERVICES WEDNESDAY AT THE FIRST LUTHERAN CHURCH AND FRIENDS MY CALL AT HAYLOCK, O'HARA & LAHEY FUNERAL HOME ON TUESDAY FROM 4 TIL 8 P.M.

THE MAQUOKETA HIGH BOYS BASEBALL TEAM BEAT CASCADE TWICE FRIDAY NIGHT AND THEN SATURDAY, WON TWO MORE GAMES AND A TOURNAMENT CHAMPTIONSHIP.
GOOD WEEKEND FOR THEM. THE HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS LOST TWO GAMES SATURDAY.

THE KMAQ 83 OLDS WAGON HAS RETIRED. SOB SOB. BOUGHT IT NEW AND PUT ON AROUND 150-THOUSAND MILES...MORE OR LESS....DON'T KNOW FOR SURE...AS IT HAD A BROKEN SPEEDOMETER FOR NEARLY 10 YEARS.

THANKS FOR THE VISIT.

DENNIS VOY





 

NICE TODAY...SUNNY AND AROUND 70...WEEKEND FORECAST LOOKS GOOD TOO.

HAVE YOU BEEN CHECKING THE KMAQ GUEST BOOK? LOTS OF INTERESTING ENTRIES LATELY.....LIKE FOR INSTANCE...TODAY, FIND OUT THAT SUSAN DEVINE, FORMERLY OF MAQUOKETA, SANG THE NATIONAL ANTHEM "solo" THIS SPRING IN FRONT OF 30,000 FANS.

THEY TOOK OFF MY RIGHT TOE.

THE SCHOOL BOARD GAVE SOME RAISES THIS WEEK FOR ADMINISTRATORS...
ANYWHERE FROM $1,500 TO $4,000 A YEAR STARTING IN JULY.
HIGH SCHOOL PRINCIPAL DYKSTRA GOES TO $65,639. WONDER WHAT MARVIN MAIRE MADE 1961? BRIGGS PRINCIPAL PAT BOLLMAN UP 4-GRAND TO $54,420. CARDINAL PRINCIPAL SUSANNE BATY TO $56,506. MIDDLE-SCHOOL AST.PRINC. FROSTY WARD .. UP 4-GRAND, TO $47,514. SHERRI
(MOLER)MARCEAU UP TO $46,420.

SUNSHINE CHILDREN'S CENTER IS GETTING A NEW PLAYGROUND...A 4-YEAR PROJECT, COSTING $58,000. VOLUNTEERS WILL PUT IT UP NEXT MONDAY AND TUESDAY. LOTS OF THE MONEY CAME FROM GRANTS.

THEY DIDN'T REALLY CUT THE TOE OFF....LITTLE NAIL TRIMMING AND IT IS FEELING FINE. NO PAIN. BUT..NOW OTHER TOE IS HURTING. FELL..IN THE DARK..IN A MUD HOLE (AFTER HARD RAIN YESTERDAY AFTERNOON)..AT THE DRIVE-IN THEATRE....WHAT A MESSY SITUATION...AND NO PAIN THEN..BUT THIS MORNING.....IT HURT. MUST HAVE SPRAINED SOMETHING.
I'LL LIVE.

DOES ANYBODY REALLY CARE ABOUT MY TOES???

THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE HAS RECEIVED $4,565 IN DONATIONS FOR THE JUNE 30TH FIREWORKS CELEBRATION IN TOWN....TOWARDS A GOAL LOF $5,000..WITH A WEEK TO GO. THAT DAY WILL BE THE ANNUAL FESTIVAL OF FLAGS..A SATURDAY AND THE FIREWORKS WILL BE SET OFF AGAIN AFTER THE STOCK CAR RACES.

IN BUSINESS NEWS...GREG AND PATTI ROLING HAVE CLOSED "THE ATTIC"
IN DOWNTOWN MAQUOKETA AFTER MANY YEARS. THEY WANT TO TRY SOMETHING ELSE. THE BUILDING IS FOR SALE OR RENT.

SMILEY'S RESTAURANT AND GIFT SHOP IN DOWNTOWN MAQUOKETA IS STILL NOT OPEN. DON'T KNOW WHAT THE HOLD-UP IS.

DAN AND SUE JACOBS OF BELLEVUE HAD A GIRL YESTERDAY AT MERCY IN DUBUQUE. GRANDPARENTS ARE MARVIN AND NANCY JACOBS. MANY OF YOU CHICKEN LOVERS WILL REMEMBER THAT NANCY WAS THE LONGTIME MANAGER OF KFC IN MAQUOKETA...NOW RETIRED.

DIXIE LOWE, AGE 64, OF MAQUOKETA, DIED YESTERDAY AT CRESTRIDGE NURSING HOME. SHE HAD WORKED AT CLINTON ENGINES AND LATER HOOF PRODUCTS, LATER RENAMED DYNAGEAR. SHE WAS ONCE MARRIED TO WAYNE POTTER, FORMERLY OF MAQUOKETA. SHE IS SURIVIVED BY 1 DAUGHTER,
PAULA (MRS. BOB BREITBACH)OF MAQUOKETA, A SISTER IN BELLEVUE, AND 2 GRANDCHILDREN.

WEEK FOR YOU BEEN GOOD? GREAT! NOW HOPE YOU HAVE A NICE WEEKEND TOO.

DENNIS VOY

 

COOL DAY TODAY....AFTER A LITTLE RAIN VERY EARLY THIS MORNING...AND THEN MOSTLY CLOUDY SKIES THIS MORNING. HAD A SHORT SHOWER EARLY THIS AFTERNOON AND NOW THE SUN IS SHINING AND LOOKS LIKE WE'LL HAVE A HIGH TODAY OF AROUND 75.

OWL FURNITURE IS HAVING ITS 13TH ANNUAL TENT SALE AND I HAVE BEEN DOING REMOTE BROADCASTS FROM THE TENT AND WILL ALSO TOMORROW AND SATURDAY.

THE MAQUOKETA BOYS VARSITY BASEBALL TEAM LAST NIGHT BEAT NORTH SCOTT 7 TO 3 AND BROUGHT THEIR RECORD TO 10 WINS AND 8 LOSSES. TOMMORROW NIGHT THEY PLAY TOUGH CASCADE IN A DOUBLE HEADER HERE. BETWEEN GAMES, THE MAQUOKETA ATHLETIC BOOSTERS WILL DEDICATE THE NEW PRESS BOX AT THE BASEBALL DIAMOND AND KMAQ-AM WILL COVER THAT "LIVE" AND THEN LEIGHTON HEPKER WILL BROADCAST THE 2ND GAME OF THE DOUBLE HEADER.

HAVE NOT YET BEEN TO THE FOOT DOCTOR...SO YOU WILL HAVE TO WAIT UNTIL TOMORROW FOR MY REPORT.

A DEWITT TEENAGE STUDENT DRIVER, OUT WITH ANOTHER STUDENT AND THE DRIVER INSTRUCTOR ROLLED THE DRIVER-ED CAR TUESDAY MORNING NEAR CALAMUS. NO ONE HURT.

THIRD WARD COUNCILMAN JERRY BOWEN HAS RESIGNED HIS POSITION TO TAKE A JOB WITH ALLIANCE TO WORK AT THE CITY'S WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT.
THE NEW JOB WOULD CONFLICT WITH HIS COUNCIL POSITION. HE IS LEAVING WEB PRINTING TO TAKE THE NEW JOB. THE COUNCIL WILL DISCUSS THE OPENING AT A SPEICAL MEETING MONDAY NIGHT. THEY CAN APPOINT A NEW COUNCILMAN UNTIL THE NOVEMBER ELECTIONS.

ALSO, LONGTIME MAQUOKETA MUNICIPAL ELECTRIC BOARD MEMBER DON SMALL HAS RESIGNED THAT VOLUNTEER POSITION. THE COUNCIL AND MAYOR MAKE THAT NEW APPOINTMENT. DON IS A FORMER MAQUOKETA BUSINESSMAN, NOW RETIRED AND DID A GOOD JOB ON THE MMEU BOARD.

KIM AND DAVID CARTER OF SEATTLE ARE PARENTS OF A GIRL BORN JUNE 13. GRANDPARENTS ARE BOB AND LAVONNE STEIGERWALDT OF DELMAR.

LONGTIME CHARLOTTE BUSINESSMAN BOB STOECKER, AGE 64, DIED YESTERDAY AT THE DEWITT HOSPITAL. HE RAN STOEKER OIL COMPANY FOR MANY YEARS.

KMAQ STUDENT ANNOUNCER TIM MELVOLD IS 17 TODAY. HIS MOM IS SHERI, WHO IS OUR NEWS DIRECTOR. HIS DAD, DOUG, HEAD OF THE MAQUOKETA NEWSPAPERS. SHERI AND DOUG ARE DIVORCED AND SHERI GOES WITH TOM MESSERLI, WHO IS KMAQ'S CHEIF ENGINEER AND SATURDAY MORNING DRIVE-TIME ANNOUNCER.

THE MAQUOKETA LIONS ANNUAL ICECREAM SOCIAL IN THE PARK FOR SENIOR CITIZENS IS NEXT WEDNESDAY NIGHT, WITH BAND CONCERT AGAIN BY THE TIMBER CITY COMMUNITY BAND, DIRECTED BY JAY KAHN. THE FIRST
SUMMER CONCERT WAS DURING THE NATION'S BI-CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION IN 1976 AND MAQUOKETA HAD A WEEK-LONG CELEBRATION. TED MAZE WAS THE ROTARY CHAIRPERSON THAT DAY AND STILL IS. HASN'T MISSED A YEAR...AND I'VE HELPED HIM WITH THE EVENT ALSO EACH YEAR. TED IS RETIRED. HIS SON MARK BOUGHT THE MAQUOKETA LUMBER COMPANY FROM HIM A FEW YEARS AGO. WIFE PAT STILL PLAYS THE CHURCH ORGAN FOR SERVICES AND FUNERALS.

ANYONE BEEN TO A MAJOR LEAGUE GAME THIS SEASON? THE CUBS ARE DOING WELL AND ARE HOPING IT WILL LAST. DON'T COUNT THE CARDINALS OUT.

TAKE YOUR WIFE TO DINNER TONIGHT! IF YOU DON'T HAVE ONE...START LOOKING.....THERE'S SOMEONE WAITING TO MEET YOU. NOW, HOW DID THIS GET INTO MY REPORT??? I'LL LEAVE IT!

AS THE GAL ON TV SAYS....GOOD-BYE.

DENNIS VOY






 

COMING SOON...... Area News.... Discussion Forum... Virtual Tour of KMAQ...... and Streaming Audio Bytes.....  

Added new LIVE Visitor and Stats button as well as removed the popup ARCHIVES Window.

David
KMAQ Webmaster  

Added new LIVE Visitor and Stats button as well as removed the popup ARCHIVES Window.

David
KMAQ Webmaster  

PARTY SUNNY AND HIGH OF 79 TODAY.

RAN INTO JERRY BICKFORD AT BILL MOLER'S TODAY....JAKE'S UNCLE, WHO LIVES IN TUCSON. HOME ON VACATION. BEEN LIVING DOWN THERE SINCE 1992....SAYS ITS COOLER THERE THAN IN PHOENIX. STAYING WITH HIS BROTHER JIM BICKFORD IN MAQUOKETA. JIM STILL OWNS THE FAMILY HOME IN CANTON WHERE HE HAS HIS CANOE RENTAL BUSINESS.

YOU CAN'T BELEIVE HOW BUSY IT IS IN MAQUOKETA'S NEW INDUSTRIAL PARK SOUTH OF TOWN WHERE THE TWO NEW INDUSTRIES ARE BUILDING. AND..IT IS JUST STARTING FOR THE FAMILY DOLLAR PROJECT OF BUILDING A 20-ACRE BUILDING. I HEARD YESTERDAY THAT THERE WILL BE AROUND 300 MEXICAN LABORORS HERE THIS SUMMER AND HOUSING IS BEING SOUGHT FOR THE WORKERS.

GOOD NEWS TODAY! THE STATE WILL NOT CLOSE THE WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT CENTER IN MAQUOKETA,IN THE FORMER BROMAN AND BROWN BUILDING, AS HAD BEEN ANNOUNCED THIS SPRING. MAQUOKETA AND AROUND 9 OTHER CITIES WILL KEEP THEIR OFFICES FOR AT LEAST ANOTHER 2 YEARS, THANKS TO ACTION BY THE LEGISLATURE WHEN THEY MET FOR A ONE-DAY SPECIAL SESSION YESTERDAY. THEIR MAIN REASON FOR THE SESSION THOUGH WAS TO APPROVE THE NEW STATE POLITICAL BOUNDRY MAP...WHICH SPELLS OUT WHAT NEW TERRITORY EACH LEGISLATURE WILL HAVE. THE CHANGES HAD TO BE MADE BECAUSE OF SHIFTING POPULATIONS DETERMINED BY THE LAST CENSUS. ONE BIG RESULT...OUR CONGRESSMAN,JIM NUSTLE, WILL BE RUNNING AGAINST ANOTHER LONGTIME CONGRESSMAN, JIM LEACH IN DAVENPORT...UNLESS ONE MOVES INTO ANOTHER DISTRICT. THE NEW MAP IS FOR BOTH FEDERAL AND STATE OFFICES.

CHARLENE KETELSEN, AGE 82, DIED MONDAY EVENING. SHE WORKED AS A BOOKKEEPER FOR MANY YEARS FOR THE LATE ED KIRCHOFF AND THE KIRCHOFF DISTRIBUTING COMPANY. HER FIRST HUSBAND WAS DON HURST, WHO WORKED AT THE POST OFFICE AND SURVIVORS INCLUDE BILL HURST OF SOUTH BEND...ALSO A SISTER, KATHERINE DIETZ OF MAQUOKETA.

TOMORROW...BAD DAY. HAVE TO HAVE AN IN-GROWN TOENAIL WORKED ON.
THINK THAT WILL HURT? I'LL LET YOU KNOW! THE FOOT DOCTOR, DR. STEVEN CRAIG ....HAS HIS MAQUOKETA OFFICE IN THE SAME BUILDING THAT WAS FOR MANY YEARS, THE BROMAN AND BROWN CLINIC.

SO LONG FOR AWHILE.

DENNIS VOY



 

CLOUDY TODAY....HIGH NEAR 70.

PRESTON IS LOOKING FOR A NEW POLICE CHIEF AND LONGTIME MAQUOKETA
POLICEMAN CURT GRUVER IS A FINALIST. THEY HOPE TO MAKE THEIR DECISION NEXT MONDAY NIGHT AT THE PRESTON CITY COUNCIL MEETING.

MAQUOKETA HAS LOST A POLICEMAN. DWIGHT WEST RESIGNED TO JOIN THE SCOTT COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT. HE HAS BEEN WITH MAQUOKETA PD SINCE 1997.

MAQUOKETA CITY COUNCILMAN HAVE SCHEDULED A PUBLIC HEARING FOR JULY 16TH, ABOUT OFFERING 3.3 ACRES OF THE FORMER CLINTON ENGINES PROPERTY TO BRENT NUGENT AUTO BUSINESS. IT IS LOCATED ON THE NORTH SIDE OF EAST MAPLE AND IS PART OF THE DONATION OF PROPERTY FROM CLINTON ENGINES OWNER MARTIN HOFFINGER TO THE CITY. NUGENT WOULD PAY THE APPRAISED PRICE OF $36,300. NUGENT'S BUSINESS IS RAPIDLY EXPANDING.

TYSON EBY, 116 NORTH OTTO, TOLD POLICE A 20-INCH BICYCLE WAS TAKEN FROM THE YARD OVER WEEKEND AND JOANNE ROEDER OF ANDREW SAID HER PURSE WAS TAKEN FROM HER SHOPPING CART WHILE SHE WAS AT THE DOLLAR GENERAL STORE YESTERDAY.

JOE ALLAN YAROLEM, JR. OF MAQUOKETA, WAS CHARGED WITH TWO COUNTS OF POSSESSION OF METHAMPHETAMINE AND A CHARGE OF 5TH DEGREE.
HE IS BEING HELD IN THE LOCAL DETENTION CENTER. THE DRUG WAS FOUND IN HIS VEHICLE WHILE AT KJ'S CONVENIENCE SUNDAY NIGHT AND THE 5TH DEGREE WAS FOR A DRIVE-OFF AT KJ'S IN MAY, LEAVING WITHOUT PAYING FOR $21 WORTH OF GAS.

THE MCHS CLASS OF 61 WILL HAVE THEIR 40TH ON JULY 14TH. MY WIFE'S CLASS. I THINK IT IS AT MICKELS. AND ALSO THAT NIGHT, THE CLASS OF 81 WILL HAVE THEIR REUNION AT THE COUNTRY CLUB.
BRENDA WEIRUP LANNOM, AN AIRLINE EXECUTIVE IN WASHINGTON STATE, WAS
IN THAT CLASS AND WILL BE HOME FOR IT. HER MOM WORKS HERE AT KMAQ. ALSO IN THAT CLASS, LOIS ANN ROLING HANSEN, A MEMBER OF THE KMAQ SALES STAFF. ANYONE ELSE FROM THOSE TWO CLASSES PLANNING TO
ATTEND THAT WEEKEND?

THANKS FOR ANOTHER VISIT.

BE SURE TO ENTER YOUR BIRTHDAY AND ANNIVERSARY AT
www.thecottage.maquoketa.com

DENNIS VOY  

A LITTLE RAIN LAST NIGHT, AND TODAY, SUNNY, WINDY AND HOT..HIGH OF 88.
COLDER WEATHER FOR REST OF WEEK.

THE MAQUOKETA BOYS SPLIT A DOUBLE-HEADER WITH MUSCATINE FRIDAY.
AND THE MAQUOKETA GIRLS ALSO WON A GAME FRIDAY.

FOR THE SECOND TIME IN ABOUT 2 WEEKS, FRED MEYER HAS HAD HIS CAMPER BROKEN IN TO AT 6-B'S CAMPGROUND NORTHWEST OF MAQUOKETA. NO VALUE OF MISSING ITEMS LISTED. FRED IS MY BROTHER-IN-LAW....NANCY'S MIDDLE BROTHER. HAS LIVED HERE IN MAQUOKETA ALL HIS LIFE....HAS HIS OWN SEMI AND WIFE IRMA HAS WORKED AT WAL-MART SINCE IT OPENED OVER 10 YEARS AGO. THEY HAVE 3 SONS AND SEVERAL GRANDKIDS.

JOHN D. WATTERS, AGE 29, OF MAQUOKETA, WAS CHARGED BY JACKSON COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPUTIES, FOR 2ND OFFENSE, DRUNK DRIVING, AFTER A MOTORCYCLE ACCIDENT JUST AFTER MIDNIGHT LAST NIGHT. HE WAS CHARGED FOR OPERATING THE CYCLE WHILE INTOXICATED, FAILURE TO MAINTAIN CONRTROL AND NO INSURANCE. HE WAS DRIVING EAST ON HIGHWAY 64 AND LOST CONTROL. HE AND PASSENGER GENEVA GARTMAN, AGE 31, OF MAQUOKETA, WERE THROWN OFF CYCLE AND BOTH REFUSED TRANSPORTATION TO THE HOSPITAL. WATTERS BLOOD ALCOHOL LEVEL REGISTERED .170 WITH .10 AS THE LEGAL LIMIT.

CLYDE DUHME, AGE 72, DIED AT HIS RURAL LAMOTTE HOME YESTERDAY MORNING.
SURVIVORS INCLUDE HIS WIFE, PHYLLIS, 3 SONS, INCLUDING RICH DUHME OF MAQUOKETA AND 3 DAUGHTERS, INCLUDING ARLETT ARTERBERRY OF MAQUOKETA.
...ALSO A BROTHER, OSCAR DUHME OF MAQUOKETA.

BIG TURN-OUT FOR OPTIMIST FLY-IN BREAKFAST YESTERDAY...INCLUDING NEARLY 50 PLANES. WEATHER WAS GREAT.

HAVE A GOOD TUESDAY.

DENNIS VOY  

A TERRIFIC WEATHER DAY IN MAQUOKETA.

A SPRAGUEVILLE TEENAGER, JEFF DIERKSON, AGE 17, FELL ASLEEP AT THE WHEEL AT 5 THIS MORNING...AND REALLY CRACKED UP HIS CAR...DOING
$4,500 DAMAGE TO HIS 88 FORD...$600 DAMAGE TO A GATE...AND DOG HOUSE HE HIT....$3,500 TO A TELEPHONE BUILDING AND $2000 DAMAGE TO A UTILITY POLE. MINOR INJURIES.

ISABELLE HAMBELL OF MAQUOKETA WILL CELEBRATE HER 95TH BIRTHDAY JUNE 20TH. MAXINE ANDERSON OF MAQUOKETA, 90, JUNE 24.

DOUG OWEN HAS HIS LAUNDROMAT FOR SALE IN PAPER TODAY...AND THE BUILDING, WHICH ALSO HAS 4 APARTMENTS. HE RECENTLY SIGNED A 2-YEAR CONTRACT TO BE CEO OF THE MAQUOKETA LIGHT PLANT.

GEORGE POTTER DIED THIS MORNING AT CRESTRIGE NURSING HOME, FOLLOWING A LENGTHY ILLNESS. AGE 87. FARMED 33 YEARS WEST OF MAQUOKETA AND THEN WORKED AT THE HOSPITAL FOR A FEW YEARS. SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE, VELDA, AND 2 SONS, WAYNE OF WYOMING AND RON OF MAQUOKETA. I LIKED GEORGE...HAD A NICE SENSE OF HUMOR.

HAPPY FATHER'S DAY!

DENNIS VOY

 

BEAUTIFUL DAY TODAY IN MAQUOKETA...HIGH OF 76.

MAQUOKETA HAS A NEW BUSINESS. DAVE FELDERMAN WAS IN AND INFORMED ME THAT HE HAS STARTED UP A NEW CAB SERVICE FOR THE CITY...KNOWN AS....SELDOM SEEN CAB CO.....OPERATED OUT OF HIS HOME, 24 HOURS A DAY, 7 DAYS A WEEK....HAULING PEOPLE OR ANYTHING ELSE. BETTER TAKE THESE PHONE NUMBERS...THEY MIGHT BE HANDY TO HAVE SOME TIME....563...THAT IS OUR NEW AREA CODE...652-1923 OR HIS CELLULAR NUMBER IS 563-212-7433. GOOD LUCK DAVE...I THINK IT WILL BE A GOOD SERVICE FOR MAQUOKETA.

A STORM WENT THROUGH EASTERN IOWA LAST NIGHT, WITH MOST DAMAGE AT BLUE GRASS. STRONG WINDS BLEW LIMBS DOWN AROUND TOWN. A STORAGE SHED WAS DESTROYED BY FIRE LAST NIGHT AT THE DAVE DOSTAL RURAL RESIDENCE. MAQUOKETA FIREMEN WHEN COMING TO THE SCENE, SAW A GLOW IN THE SKY AND COULD NOT SAVE THE SHED, WITH DAMAGE ESTIMATED AT ABOUT $10,000.

ITS DEFINITE, RICKY VAN SHELTON WILL BE THE THURSDAY NIGHT ENTERTAINER AT THE FAIR ON THURSDAY NIGHT, JULY 26TH. THE SIGNED CONTRACT HAS ARRIVED AT MANAGER TOM CALLAHAN'S OFFICE.

IOWA'S UNEMPLOYMENT RATE IN MAY WAS AT 2.8 PERCENT, UP FROM 2.7 IN APRIL. IN JACKSON COUNTY, THE RATE WAS 3.9 IN MAY, DOWN FROM 4.2 IN APRIL. A YEAR AGO, IT WAS AT 3.5.

ANOTHER VEHICLE HIT BY BB-GUN AT BRAD DEERY MOTORS LAST NIGHT..DAMAGE TO THE RED PICKUP, ABOUT $300.

HAVE A NICE WEEKEND.

DENNIS VOY  

MOSTLY CLOUDY TODAY...SOME RAIN THIS AFTERNOON AND MORE POSSIBLE TONIGHT.

FIRST, DID I MENTION IN EARLIER REPORT....THAT TODD BOWMAN IS THE NEW HEAD WRESTLING COACH AT MCHS? HE GOT THE JOB MONDAY NIGHT, AT EXTRA PAY OF NEARLY $4,000 FOR THE JOB. HE HAS BEEN THE ASSISTANT FOR THE LAST 7 OR 8 YEARS. MR. T...TAMPIER...RESIGNED THE POSITION BUT WILL CONTINUE TEACHING IN THE DISTRICT. TODD'S BROTHER, KEVIN, IS THE SOPHOMORE FOOTBALL COACH. PARENTS ARE HUGH AND MARY. THEY HAVE 3 OTHER SONS YOU MAY KNOW. MIKE IS AN ATTORNEY AT MONTICELLO, BOB HAS A POPULAR BODY SHOP AND BILL IS IN WITH HIS DAD AT THE STANDARD AMOCO STATION ON SOUTH MAIN AND THEY ALSO HAVE TANK WAGON SERVICE. YES..HUGH IS THERE EVERY WEEK PUMPING GAS. I HAVE KNOWN THE BOWMAN FAMILY FOR OVER 40 YEARS.

THE JACKSON COUNTY FAIR WILL BE JULY 25-29. PARADE WEDNESDAY NIGHT, A COUNTRY SHOW THURSDAY NIGHT, WHICH IS EXPECTED TO FEATURE RICKY VAN SHELTON, BUT CONTRACT STILL NOT IN ON THIS. TRUCK AND TRACTOR PULL ON FRIDAY NIGHT, STOCK CAR RACING SATURDAY NIGHT AND BULL RIDING SUNDAY NIGHT. MORE LATER ON THE FAIR.

EDNA DOTY, AGE 80, OF MAQUOKETA, DIED WEDNESDAY MORNING AT UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS IN IOWA CITY. SHE IS SURVIVED BY 3 DAUGHTERS, INCLUDING MARTHA RINIKER OF MAQUOKETA AND 2 SONS, INCLUDING CHARLES BAGUSS OF MAQUOKETA.

SHORT REPORT, BUT NOT MUCH MORE INTERESTING TODAY.

DENNIS VOY  

RAIN, WIND, CLOUDS...NOT A VERY NICE DAY..HIGH 80...LESS THAN A HALF INCH OF RAIN, WITH THUNDER AND LIGHTNING AT TIMES.

BIG STORY TODAY.....KIM HUCKSTADT WAS HIRED LAST NIGHT AS THE NEW SUPT. OF SCHOOLS, REPLACING ROD MONTANG, WHO RESIGNED TO TAKE A POSITON IN WESTERN IOWA. KIM HAS BEEN IN MAQUOKETA SINCE 1977..HE WAS VARSITY GIRL'S BASKETBALL COACH FOR 15 YEARS...AND HE HAS BEEN PRINCIPAL AT MIDDLE SCHOOL THE LAST 6 YEARS. HE WAS HIRED FOR $90,000... A TWO-YEAR CONTRACT. THIS PAST YEAR MONTANG HAD RECEIVED $72,000. HUCKSTADT WILL BEGIN HIS DUTIES JULY 1ST.

GOTTA GO TO MY GRANDSON'S LITTLE LEAGUE GAME,STARTING IN A FEW MINUTES. NOT MUCH ELSE IN THE NEW LOCALLY ANYWAY.

KEEP COOL.

DENNIS VOY  

HOT AND HUMID TODAY...HIGH OF 92, 1-DEGREE SHORT OF THE 1933 RECORD.
GOOD CHANCE OF STORMS TONIGHT.

OPEN HOUSE TONIGHT AT 6:30 FOR SUPT. ROD MONTANG, LEAVING MAQUOKETA THIS SUMMER AFTER 6 YEARS. AFTER OPEN HOUSE, SCHOOL BOARD WILL MEET AND THEY MAY NAME A NEW SUPER. COULD BE MAQUOKETA'S KIM HUCKSTEDT, CURRENTLY MIDDLE SCHOOL PRINCIPAL. HE WAS MCHS VARSITY BASKETBALL COACH ALSO FOR QUITE A FEW YEARS.

LORI FEY AND JUDY MOORE, CO-CHAIR FOR THE CANCER RELAY FOR LIFE IN MAQUOKETA OVER WEEKEND, REPORTED TODAY, A RECORD AMOUNT WAS RAISED, $54,600, SURPASSING LAST YEAR'S $42,000.

HELEN BRADY, RECENTLY TURNED 80... LAST THURSDAY, IN THE 9-PIN SENIOR BOWLING LEAGUE, ROLLED A 277 AND 667 SERIES. HELEN AND MARV ALSO HAVE TWO GARDENS, ONE IN TOWN AND ONE AT DAUGHTER DARLENE'S PLACE.

A LOST NATION WOMAN LOST CONTROL OF HER JET SKI SUNDAY AFTERNOON AT B-B'S CAMPGROUND NORTHWEST OF MAQUOKETA ON THE MAQUOKETA RIVER.
SHE AND A PASSENGER, ALSO FROM LOST NATION, HIT THE BANK AND WERE FLIPPED FROM THE VEHICLE. THE DRIVER WAS BROOKE DAVIS, AGE 20 AND THE PASSENGER, KELLY KLEPPE, AGE 23. BOTH TAKEN TO LOCAL HOSPITAL AND TREATED FOR MINOR INJURIES.

A MOTORCYCLE STOLEN FROM LARRY BARTELS OF BALDWIN A WEEK AGO WAS FOUND SATURDAY ON HIGHWAY 64 NEAR MAQUOKETA.

RICK WITT OF MAQUOKETA REPORTED TO MAQUOKETA POLICE THAT SOMEONE TOOK 72 CD'S AND CASE FROM HIS GARAGE, A LOSS OF OVER 11-HUNDRED DOLLARS.

TRAVIS TRITT AND TANYA TUCKER WILL HIGHLIGHT THE THURSDAY NIGHT SHOW AT THE GREAT JONES COUNTY FAIR IN MONICELLO ON JULY 19TH.

MORE ON OBITUARY OF TOM FRANDSEN, WHO DIED SATURDAY AT A DUBUQUE HOSPITAL. HE IS SURVIVED BY 3 DAUGHTERS, LISA FRANDSEN AND KEISHA FRANDSEN, BOTH IN MAQUOKETA AND LIBBY FRANDSEN IN PHOENIX. ALSO A SON JOEL IN MAQUOKETA.

I.S. MYREN, FORMERLY FROM MAQUOKETA, DIED LAST THURSDAY AT A CHARLES CITY HOSPITAL. HE WORKED AT THE THEISEN'S STORE IN MAQUOKETA AND THEN WENT TO TIPTON STORE AND MANAGED IT UNTIL RETIREMENT.
HE IS SURVIVED BY 2 SONS....REV. ROBERT, WHO IS PASTOR OF THE LITTLE BROWN CHURCH IN THE VALE AT NASHUA AND RICHARD, WHO LIVES IN ARIZONA.

ANYONE OUT THERE GET MARRIED AT THE LITTLE BROWN CHURCH? PASTOR BOB'S WIFE IS PASTOR LINDA MYREN, SISTER OF JUDY BICKFORD OF MAQUOKETA.

I HEARD TODAY (VIA E-MAIL) FROM JOHN PHILLIPS IN BELLVUE, COLORADO. HIS DAD WAS BEN, THE DENTIST IN MAQUOKETA. ANYONE GET A TOOTH PULLED BY BEN? ANYWAY, JOHN SAID HE KNEW HARRY DOLPHIN WHO DIED LAST WEEK.
SAID HE AND BROTHER BOB(DECEASED)USED TO PLAY WITH HARRY WHEN THEY WERE KIDS...ON NORTH 5TH STREET. HARRY WAS AN ENGINEER AND WAS THE SUPERVISOR FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF A LARGE DAM PROJECT IN DENVER AREA. HE HAD A SISTER, DOROTHY, WHO MAY STILL BE LIVING.
BOB STOCKHAM ALSO REMEMBERS HARRY...AND HAD A FEW STORIES (AT COFFEE THIS MORNING) TO TELL ABOUT HARRY AND THE PHILLIPS BOYS.

AND SO MUCH FOR A MONDAY.

CHECK BACK AGAIN...SOON. THANKS FOR THIS VISIT.

DENNIS VOY


 

BEAUTIFUL DAY YESTERDAY AND TODAY.... HOT AND HUMID.

THE NEW GOLF COURSE IS NOT READY! THE FOURSOME THAT WON-THE-HIGHEST-BID HONOR TO PLAY THE FIRST ROUND, DID SO FRIDAY NIGHT. BUT, YESTERDAY MORNING, IT WAS DECIDED THAT THE GROUNDS ARE STILL TOO WET...AND THAT IT WOULD BE BEST TO GIVE THE COURSE ANOTHER 3-WEEKS FOR GROWTH...FOLLOWING THE WET MAY. SO, TENTATIVELY, IT WILL NOW OPEN JUNE 30TH.

THE MAQUOKETA BOYS SPLIT THEIR DOUBEHEADER IN MAQUOKETA THURSDAY NIGHT, BUT DEFEATED A HIGH SCHOOL FROM CLAYTON COUNTY TWICE FRIDAY NIGHT. THEY ARE OFF TO A PRETTY GOOD START, BETTER THAN THE GIRLS ARE DOING. THEY LOST TWO GAMES YESTERDAY IN AN IOWA CITY TOURNAMENT. ONCE A WEEK OR SO, I WILL LET YOU KNOW HOW THE TWO TEAMS ARE DOING.

MISS MISSISSIPPI VALLEY FAIR, ERIN SMITH, OF BETTENDORF, WAS CROWNED THE NEW MISS IOWA LAST NIGHT. THE TWO CONTESTANTS, WITH GRANDPARENTS HERE IN MAQUOKETA, DID NOT FINISH IN THE TOP FOUR OR RECEIVE ANY AWARDS, BUT I AM SURE HAD A GREAT TIME. ONE WAS BROOKE BYAM, GRAND-DAUGHTER OF RED AND BERNICE HENTON AND THE OTHER WAS CHRISTINE DAVIS, GRAND-DAUGHTER OF DON AND THELMA DAVIS OF MAQUOKETA AND EVERETT MATTOX OF MAQUOKETA.

YESTERDAY, VOLUNTEER CONTRACTORS AND OTHER VOLUNTEER RESIDENTS, SPENT MOST OF THE DAY PUTTING NEW SIDING ON THE OLD SALVATION ARMY CITADEL (CHURCH)BUILDING THAT WAS MOVED LAST YEAR FROM BY THE POST OFFICE TO HORSESHOE POND PARK. THEIR ONLY PAY WAS A NOON PICNIC. LOOKS NICE. THE PARK'S NEW RV PARK IS GETTING LOTS OF USE ALSO THESE DAYS, EVEN THOUGH IT IS NOT FINISHED. THE NEW DUMP STATION I BELEIVE IS IS IN, BUT THE RESTROOM IS NOT FINISHED YET. THE POND THOUGH IS COVERED WITH A GREEN MUCK...ALWAYS A PROBLEM WITH IT.

SPEAKING OF NEW RESTROOM BUILDING. THE ONE, WITH CONCESSION STAND ATTACHED, IS ALMOST DONE AT THE CITY BALL PARK AT THE NORTH EDGE OF MAQUOKETA..AND IT LOOKS GREAT...AT LEAST FROM THE STREET WHEN PASSING BY. IT WAS NEEDED.

LISA EARLES, DAUGHTER OF STEVEN AND VICKI EARLES, A 99 GRAD OF MCHS IS A JUNIOR AT ISU AND RECEIVED THE $1,000 EDWARD L. TUBBS SCHOLARSHIP FOR THE NEXT YEAR.

TOM FRANDSEN, AGE 65, DIED YESTERDAY AT DUBUQUE HOSPITAL. SERVICES PENDING AT HAYLOCK, O'HARA AND LAHEY. HE AT ONE TIME RAN A BAR IN THE HURST HOTEL. MORE LATER.

JONATHAN R. SEYFERT, AGE 23, OF MAQUOKETA WAS CHARGED WITH OWI THURSDAY NIGHT, ARRESTED AFTER HE PULLED IN FRONT OF A SQUAD CAR AND NEARLY CAUSED AN ACCIDENT. THE OFFICER WAS NEW DEPUTY RUSS LONG.
A RECORDS CHECK SHOWED SEYFERT'S LICENSE WAS REVOKED FOR A DRUG-RELATED CONVICTION.

ALMOST A FULLHOUSE FRIDAY NIGHT...AND MORE THAN FULL LAST NIGHT, AT THE DRIVE-IN THEATRE....GREAT-WEATHER NIGHTS FOR THE HIT FAMILY MOVIE
"SHREK".

JOE SOKOL REPORT TO MAQUOKETA POLICE THE THEFT OF $500 CASH AND A $500 GOLD ANTIQUE POCKET WATCH...FROM THE RESIDENCE OF SHERRY SOKOL.

TOM CLASEN, AGE 31, OF MAQUOKETA, ARRESTED FOR DRUG MANUFACTURING IN FEBRUARY, WITHIN 1,000 FEET OF A SCHOOL AND IN FRONT OF A MINOR, FRIDAY WAS SENTENCED TO A TOTAL OF 20-YEARS AND FINED $50,000. HE WILL SERVE A MINIMUM OF 3 YEARS.

DON AND WANDA ROCKWELL OF RURAL MAQUOKETA, CELEBRATED THEIR 50TH ON JUNE 3RD. DUANE AND DOROTHEA MILLER OF MAQUOKETA, CELEBRATED THEIR 60TH JUNE 1ST.

CARL SMALL IS THE NEW HEAD BASKETBALL COACH AT CAMANCHE HIGH SCHOOL.
IN THE MID-80'S, HE WAS A FINE PLAYER FOR BILL FLEMMING. ALSO GOOD TENNIS PLAYER. GEORGE PICKUP IS THE COACH AT DEWITT, SO NOW THERE ARE TWO CONFVERENCE COACHES THAT WERE FORMER MCHS STUDENTS AND PLAYERS. SMALL WAS AN ASSISTANT AT COLUMBUS JUNCTION, WHERE JEFF GILMORE, ANOTHER FORMER MCHS STANDOUT, IS THE HEAD COACH.

GOTTA GO. HAVE A GOOD WEEK.

DENNIS VOY









 

DRY TODAY, MOSTLY CLOUDY AND TEMPERATURES AROUND 70.

THE CITY OF MAQUOKETA WILL HAVE A PUBLIC HEARING IN JULY TO SELL ABOUT 3 ACRES OF THE FORMER CLINTON ENGINES PROPERTY TO BRENT NUGENT. IT IS PROPERTY ON THE NORTH SIDE OF EAST MAPLE STREET..NOW GRASS AND TREES.. AND THIS PROPERTY IS ADJACENT TO NUGENT'S CURRENT PROPERTY. THE SALE WILL BE BASED ON THE APPRAISED VALUE OF $36,300.
THE CITY OWNS THE CLINTON ENGINES PROPERTY AND THIS WOULD BE THE FIRST LAND TO BE SOLD OFF. CLEANUP IS GOING ON NOW IN THE AREA THAT WAS THE CLINTON ENGINES FOUNDRY. THAT AREA HASA BEEN A MESS FOR MANY YEARS. NUGENT OWNS A BODY SHOP THAT IS REALLY GROWING.
HE MAINLY BUYS WRECKED CARS FROM INSURANCE COMPANIES AND FIXES THEM UP.

BRAD DEERY MOTORS WAS HIT AGAIN. TWO TRUCKS WERE SHOT BY SOME SORT OF GUN AND THE DAMAGE ESTIMATE WAS NOT REPORTED. THE $5,000 REWARD CONTINUES.

THE SCHOOL BOARD IS MEETING TONIGHT AND MAY HIRE A NEW SUPERINTENDENT.

THE RELAY FOR LIFE EVENT IS TOMORROW NIGHT...THROUGHOUT THE NIGHT..UNTIL SATURDAY MORNING...AT THE FAIRGROUNDS THIS YEAR. BIG MONEY RAISER FOR THE CANCER SOCIETY.

THE MAQUOKETA BOYS AND GIRLS EACH HAVE A DOUBLE-HEADER TONIGHT SIDE-BY-SIDE AT THE TWO HIGH SCHOOL MAQUOKETA BALLPARKS JUST SOUTH OF THE HIGH SCHOOL. STUB PAPE AND PHIL TABOR WILL BE AT GRILLS AND FANS ARE URGED TO COME TO THE GAMES...NO ADMISSION...BACK THE CARDINALS AND HAVE SOME GOOD FOOD AND SUPPORT THE BOOSTERS CLUB. BIG NIGHT AT THE BALL PARKS TONIGHT.

THE MAQUOKETA STATE BANK IS HAVING THEIR ANNUAL FAMILY APPRECIATION NIGHT TONIGHT AT THE 61 DRIVE-IN THEATRE. FREE BURGERS BY THE PORK PRODUCERS AND BEEF PRODUCERS...FREE POPCORN, PRIZES, AND MORE..THEN THE FREE FAMILY MOVIE. GUESS WHERE I'LL BE AGAIN TONIGHT.

THANKS FOR STOPPING BY.

DENNIS VOY



 

CLOUDY, HUMID AND IN THE UPPER 60'S TODAY. NO RAIN. BETTER WEATHER COMING THRU THE WEEKEND.

THREE MAQUOKETA TEENAGE GIRLS WERE INJURED IN A TWO-VEHICLE ACCIDENT YESTERDAY AFTERNOON ON 64 THREE MILES WEST OF MAQUOKETA. BROOKE TAYLOR, AGE 17, OF BALDWIN WAS THE DRIVER. SHE WENT ONTO THE SHOULDER AND OVER-CORRECTED AND WENT INTO OTHER LANE AND HIT CAR DRIVEN BY TOM STOLL, AGE 46, OF LOST NATION. MAQUOKETA RESCUE SQUAD WAS CALLED, BUT NO ONE WAS TRAPPED IN VEHICLE. BROOKE TAYLOR AND A PASSENGER, CAYLA BARESEL, 16, OF MAQUOKETA, WERE TAKEN BY HOSPITAL AMBULANCE TO JCPH AND TREATED AND RELEASED. A BACKSEAT PASSENGER, ASHLEY BOWMAN, AGE 16, OF MAQUOKETA, WAS TRANSFERRED TO UNIVERSITY
HOSPITALS IN IOWA CITY WITH INTERNAL UNJURIES AND IS LISTED IN FAIR CONDITIION.

LAURA DANIELS AND WILLIAM BAKER, JR. OF MAQUOKETA HAD A BOY, LAST FRIDAY, AT THE JCPHOSPITAL.

LeANNA STANTON, 84, OF MAQUOKETA, DIED YESTERDAY AFTERNOON AT THE LOCAL HOSPITAL. SHE IS SURVIVED BY 1 DAUGHTER, JANICE McMURRAY, OF ANDREW AND 2 SONS, LARRY STANTON AND DENNY STANTON, BOTH OF MAQUOKETA...ALSO 7 GRANDCHILDREN AND 8 GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN.

MAX DUTTON, AGE 66, DIED SUNDAY, AS MENTIONED IN YESTERDAY'S REPORT.
HE FARMED SOUTH OF MAQUOKETA IN CLINTON COUNTY FOR 27 YEARS.
HE AND HIS WIFE THEN MOVED TO TEXAS TO OPERATE A MOBLE HOME PARK.
SURVIVORS INCLUDE HIS WIFE, DELORES, A DAUGHTER JULIE IN TEXAS,
TWO SONS, DOUG IN MONTANA AND DAVID IN TEXAS. ALSO 1 SISTER, MRS. MARJORIE KEHN OF MAQUOKETA.

LEO WESTPHAL, AGE 71, OF MAQUOKETA, HIT A DEER EARLY THIS MORNING 5 MILES WEST OF GRAND MOUND ON HWY 30. HIS 97 CHEVY RECEIVED DAMAGE OF $1,200.

THANKS FOR YOUR VISIT.

DENNIS VOY

 

STARTED RAINING AT 2 THIS MORNING..LITE MOST OF THE TIME...AND IT IS JUST NOW STOPPING. OVER AN INCH. HIGH IN UPPER 50'S. EVERYONE IS GRUMBLING ABOUT THE WEATHER.

OPEN HOUSE TOMORROW MORNING, OF THE NEW FARM BUREAU BUILDING
IN DOWNTOWN MAQUOKETA, ACROSS FROM TANDEM TIRE, THAT WAS FOR MANY YEARS, HARRIS PENROSE COMPANY. WHERE THE NEW FARM BUREAU BUILDING IS WAS MANY THINGS FOR MANY YEARS...FEED...FURNITURE..PAMIDA...
AND INDOOR CARWASH NEAR THE END, BEFORE BEING TORN DOWN. I HOPE TO STOP BY AS I HAVE NOT YET BEEN IN IT.

AT CITY COUNCIL MEETING LAST NIGHT, THE COUNCIL TALKED ABOUT
EXTENDING A SEWER LINE TO REYNERVILLE AREA. OK....WHO OUT THERE KNOWS WHERE THAT IS?

ALSO AT MEETING, A BUILDING CODE WAS AGAIN DISCUSSED. APPARENTLY A COMMITTEE HAS COME UP WITH A SIMPLER CODE, AS THE LAST ONE WAS
FOUGHT BY MANY AND WENT DOWN TO DEFEAT. IN IT, YOU COULDN'T EVEN CHANGE A LIGHT BULB IN YOUR HOUSE, SO I WAS TOLD.

THE MCHS CLASS OF 61 IS HAVING A 40TH ON JULY 14 AND 15. MY WIFE WAS IN THAT CLASS, SO I'LL BE GOING TO ALL OR SOME OF FESTIVITIES.

AN ANAMOSA MAN HIT A DEER WITH HIS HARLEY MOTORCYCLE AND WAS KILLED EARLY SUNDAY MORNING. HE WAS 38.

THE ROBBERS WERE OUT AGAIN. A $300 12-FOOT FLATBOTTOM BOAT TAKIN FROM JOHN FAGERLAND'S BACK YARD. JOHN, BY THE WAY, IS STILL VERY ACTIVE AT HIS MAQUOKETA STATE BANK OFFICE. MSB WAS GOING TO HAVE THEIR ANNUAL FAMILY NIGHT AT THE 61 DRIVE-IN, BUT POSTPONED IT UNTIL THURSDAY NIGHT. ALSO, FOOTBALL COACH MARK HILLEBRAND REPORTED AN 18-SPEED ROADMASTER BIKE STOLEN FROM HIS GARAGE OVER THE WEEKEND.

STEVE VAN HECKE HIT A DEER NEAR NASHVILLE, WEST OF MAQUOKETA, SUNDAY NIGHT AND SARAH HOBBS HIT ONE ON THE CAVES ROAD YESTERDAY.

MAX DUTTON, AGE 66, FORMERLY OF MAQUOKETA, DIED SUNDAY MORNING AT A HOSPITAL IN HOUSTON. HE IS FROM PEARLAND, TEXAS. SERVICES PENDING AT CARSON AND SON FUNERAL AND CREMEATION SERVICES IN MAQUOKETA.

LOIS ANN HANSEN AND KEVIN FISCHER, ARE GETTING MARRIED NOVEMBER 24TH.
LOIS WORKS HERE AT KMAQ IN THE SALES DEPARTMENT. KEVIN WORKS AT THE HOSPITAL. MARK YOUR CALENDAR. KMAQ WILL NOT GO OFF THE AIR THAT DAY FOR THE WEDDING, BUT WE ARE LOOKING FORWARD TO IT. HER SON MATT, AGE 7, WILL BE IN THE WEDDING. WHAT'S HER DAD...DON ROLLING...DOING THESE DAYS? STILL WORKING FOR THE COUNTY! HER MOM PASSED AWAY A FEW YEARS AGO.

WELL..JAKE BICKFORD OF BILL MOLER'S MEN'S WEAR... JUST CALLED...WANTS TO GO FOR COFFEE...HE'S BUYING...SO SEE YOU LATER.

DENNIS VOY





 

COOL AND CLOUDY TODAY..HIGH AROUND 60.

MAQUOKETA CITY COUNCIL MEETING TONIGHT.

THE NATURE CENTER NEAR THE ENTRANCE TO THE MAQUOKETA CAVES STATE PARK , WILL NOT OPEN THIS YEAR BECAUSE OF A STATE BUDGET CUT OF $500,000 FOR THE STATE PARK SYSTEM. IT IS THE BUILDING THAT WAS FOR MANY YEARS...SAGER'S MUSEUM. THE STATE RE-DONE IT AT A COST OF OVER $100,000 SEVERAL YEARS AGO AND IT IS A NEAT PLACE TO VISIT.
BUT...YOU'LL HAVE TO WAIT UNTIL NEXT YEAR.

THREE MORE VEHICLES STOLEN IN AREA OVER THE WEEKEND, BUT TWO WERE
RECOVERED THE SAME DAY. THEY WERE OWNED BY TAMMY HOSCH AND BRUCE CURRENT. BUT, STILL MISSING, LARRY BARTELS MOTORCYCLE.

SOMEONE BROKE INTO THE POP MACHINE AT AWESOME CAR WASH OUT BY THE ENTRANCE DRIVE TO WAL MART OVER THE WEEKEND AND TOOK $350 IN POP AND MONEY.

JOSEPH CLARK OF MAQUOKETA, AGE 23, WAS CHARGED WITH OWI OVER THE WEEKEND....AND DRIVING WHILE LICENSE WAS REVOKED.

JONATHAN SEYFERT, 23, NO ADDRESS LISTED, WAS CHARGED WITH PUBLIC
INTOXICATION. HE WAS JUMPING OUT IN FRONT OF TRAFFIC SATURDAY NIGHT
ON WEST SUMMIT STREET.

AFTER ALL THE FOOD I ATE LAST WEEK IN BRANSON, I AM ON A DIET.
DON'T FEED ME!

AND...SO MUCH FOR A MONDAY.

DENNIS VOY







 

IT IS JUST AFTER 2 P.M. AND THE ANDREW HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATION CEREMONY ..LIVE AND DIRECT FROM ANDREW GYM....JUST STARTED ON KMAQ-FM. LEIGHTON HEPKER IS DOING THE REMOTE BROADCAST.

THE ST. LOUIS CARDINALS, WHO FINIALLY WON A GAME YESTERDAY, PLAY TONIGHT. THE CARDINALS ARE 3 GAMES BEHIND THE CUBS, WHO HAVE WON 12 IN A ROW. IS THIS THE YEAR FOR THE CUBS? I HOPE NOT.

THE MAQUOKETA IKES CLUB HAS A NEW TRAP HOUSE AND AUTOMATIC CLAY PIGEON THROWER...AT THEIR CLUB SITE JUST SOUTH OF MAQUOKETA.
THEY SHOOT MONDAY NIGHTS FROM 6 TIL 10. ACTIVE MEMBERS INCLUDE:
TIM JONES, MARK WALSH, MATT SCHLAPIA, GARY SCHLAPIA, KURTIS KINTZLE,
JASON MOHR, PRESIDENT JOEL CORNELIUS, TREASURER KENNY BOWMAN,
SECRETARY LEROY BICKFORD, AND ROGER HANSEN. THE CLUB HAS BEEN THERE FOR MORE THAN 50 YEARS.

NO NEW SCHOOL SUPERINTENDANT FOR MAQUOKETA YET. THE BOARD, AND OTHERS, INTERVIEWED 3 AND WILL INTERVIEW NO ONE ELSE. MY GUESS IS
KIM HUCKSTADT, CURRENT MAQUOKETA MIDDLE SCHOOL PRINCIPAL, WILL GET THE POSITION.

THE PEACE PIPE PLAYERS WILL PUT ON A MUSICAL IN AUGUST, FEATURING COLE PORTER SONGS. MCHS CHORUS TEACHER PAM CRAWFORD WILL BE THE DIRECTOR.

HENRY AND MARY SCOTT'S FARM NEAR ELWOOD HAD A FIRE FRIDAY NIGHT.
A MACHINE SHED WAS DESTROYED, INCLUDING A CORN PLANTER, SKID LOADER AND HAY BALER. THE FARM IS RUN BY HIS SON LYLE AND WIFE BRENDA.
LOST NATION FIREMEN KEPT THE BLAZE FROM GOING TO BARN AND HOUSE.

ROY MOREHEAD STOPPED HERE AT KMAQ FOR SOMETHING YESTERDAY. I HAD NOT SEEN HIM FOR A LONG TIME. WINTERS DOWN SOUTH. LOOKS GOOD.
A GRANDDAUGHTER IS GETTING MARRIED HERE IN JULY. HIS WIFE DIED YEARS AGO. HE AND BROTHER-IN-LAW HAROLD PENROSE, RAN THE HARRIS PENROSE HARDWARE AND TIRE STORE FOR MANY YEARS. HAROLD AND WIFE STILL LIVE IN THIS AREA TOO. WHERE THAT STORE WAS, IS NOW THE LOCATION OF TANDEM TIRE, ALSO GOODYEAR DEALER.

IN STOCK CAR RACES LAST NIGHT..THE FOLLOWING FROM MAQUOKETA RACED:
CURT HUGHES, BRIAN BOWLING, JOE YAROLEM, RON KLOSSNER, KEITH FELLER, JEFF BAKER, RON PAULSEN, SHAWN FLAGEL, TOLLY HOWELL, DOUG NIGH, HAL SPRAGUE AND DUSTIN EDWARDS. IT WAS A COOL NIGHT, BUT 97 CARS SHOWED-UP.

A NEW SECRETARY WAS HIRED THIS WEEK TO REPLACE GEORGIA ROBINSON WHO RETIRED. SHE IS TERESA TRENKAMP, CURRENTLY WORKING AT THE MAQUOKETA STATE BANK.

RON RIORDAN, JR. OF MAQUOKETA, WAS CHARGED THIS WEEK WITH CONTRIBUTING TO THE DELINQUENCY OF A MINOR. MAQUOKETA POLICE SAY HE ATTEMPTED TO GET TWO YOUNG MALES, AGE 13 AND 14, TO DAMAGE SOME VEHICLES PARKED AT BRAD DEERY MOTORS, WITH THE INTENTION OF GETTING REWARD MONEY FROM DEERYS AFTER THE YOUTH COMMITTED THE VANDALISM.
HOW ABOUT THAT?

A MAQUOKETA MAN CHEWED A HOLE IN THE UPHOLSTERY OF A MAQUOKETA SQUAD CAR THIS WEEK WHILE BEING TAKEN TO JAIL TUESDAY NIGHT. CHARGED WAS WILLIAM J. SIMON, AGE 21. HE AND CHRISTOPHER SOKOL, AGE 29, OF MAQUOKETA, WERE BOTH ARRESTED DOWNTOWN FOR ARGUING IN A PARKING LOT.
SIMON WAS IN THE BACK SEAT OF THE CAR AND CHEWED A 4-INCH HOLD IN THE UPHOLSTERY. DAMAGE ESTIMATE, $500. BOTH WERE CHARGED WITH PUBLIC INTOXICATION. SIMON'S LEVEL REGISTERED .240 AND SOKOL'S WAS AT .280. THE LEGAL LIMIT IS .10.

THE LOCAL HOSPITAL BOARD MET THIS WEEK AND APPROVED A BUDGET FOR NEXT
YEAR WHICH INCLUDES A 6% OVERALL INCREASE IN COSTS OF SERVICE.
A SEMI-PRIVATE ROOM INCREASES FROM $457 A DAY TO $485 A DAY.
A PRIVATE ROOM GOES TO $500 A DAY, EFFECTIVE JULY 1. SALARIES FOR EMPLOYEES WILL GO UP ABOUT 5-PERCENT. THE ANNUAL GOLF OUTING FOR THE HOSPITAL IS THIS COMING WEEK, JUNE 6TH.

A GIRL WAS BORN MAY 23RD TO FRANCISCO AND BRENDA OCHOA OF SPRINGVILLE.
THE MATERNAL GRANDMOTHER IS JANET WOOD OF MAQUOKETA.

WELL...GUESS WE ARE CAUGHT UP FOR THE MOST PART.

HAVE A GOOD WEEK OUT THERE.

DENNIS VOY



 

I'M BACK!

PARTLY SUNNY TODAY....WEATHER HAS BEEN COOL HERE...AND GOT A HEAVY RAIN SHOWER FRIDAY NIGHT TOO. WARMER WEATHER IS COMING....ABOUT TIME...THIS IS JUNE AND SUMMER IS AROUND THE CORNER. EVERYTHING IS GREEN IN IOWA.

BRANSON TRIP WAS FUN AND WENT WELL....FOR THE MOST PART. FOR FIRST TIME, I HAD A MUSIC SHOW CANCEL ON ME...WITH THREE HOURS NOTICE.
MICKEY GILLEY WAS SICK, COULDN'T GO ON..SO I CALLED AROUND TOWN FOR A REPLACEMENT AFTERNOON SHOW...AND DISCOVERED THE SHOJI TABUCHI SHOW HAD SOME GOOD SEATS, SO WE WENT THERE...AND EVERYONE WAS HAPPY WITH THE FILL-IN. AND...YOU HAVE READ ABOUT GAS DRIVE-OFF IN OUR AREA.
WHAT'S WORSE? A RESTAURANT DRIVE-OFF! AGAIN..FOR FIRST TIME EVER, AFTER BREAKFAST FRIDAY M0RNING...I FORGOT TO PAY FOR MY BUS OF 40 PEOPLE. HEADING HOME FOR ABOUT A HALF-HOUR...I DAWNED ON ME THAT I HAD NOT PAID....(THIS PROBLEM COMES WITH AGE THEY SAY)..SO I GOT ON THE CELL PHONE...CALLED THE PLACE...THEY HAD NO IDEA I HAD GONE WITHOUT PAYING AND SAID IT WAS OKAY TO SEND CHECK WHEN I GOT HOME.

COUPLE BAD ACCIDENTS THIS PAST WEEK. LAST SUNDAY, GALEN BAHR, 43, OF ANDREW, WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD AT THE SCENE FROM INJURIES IN A CAR-MOTORCYCLE ACCIDENT NORTH OF ANDREW. HE WAS DRIVING THE MOTORCYCLE AND THE CAR WAS DRIVEN BY STEVIE HUDRLIK,AGE 19, OF ANDREW.
AROUND 100 MOTORCYCLISTS ON THEIR BIKES ATTENDED THE FUNERAL.
HIS SISTER IS PAT CORNELIUS OF ANDREW. I DON'T HAVE THE LIST OF OTHER SURVIVORS HERE IN MY OFFICE. THEN, TUESDAY MORNING, DARIN
HELMLE, 25, OF RURAL CHARLOTTE, WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD AT THE SCENE FOLLOWING A SINGLE VEHICLE ACCIDENT A MILE NORTH OF PRESTON. HE WAS APPARAENTLY GOING TOO FAST FOR CONDITIONS WITH HIS 2002 BLAZER AND FAILED TO NEGOTIATE A CURVE. THE CAR FLIPPED AND HE WAS EJECTED FROM THE VEHICLE. HE HAD RELATIVES IN SPRINGBROOK AREA. WAS ENGAGED TO BE MARRIED. GOOD LOOKING GUY, FROM THE PICTURE IN THE PAPER.

RALPH AND DONNA HEINZEL OF MAQUOKETA, CELEBRATED THEIR GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY THIS PAST TUESDAY. HE IS A RETIRED MAIL CARRIER.

RICHARD MOELLER (FATHER IS FAY, AGE 91, OF MAQUOKETA) AND HIS WIFE, JANE, WERE PASSENGERS ON A CRUISE SHIP NEAR SEATTLE A FEW WEEKS AGO, WHEN THEIR SHIP BEGAN TO "TIP". THEY RECEIVED MINOR INJURIES. JANE WAS TOSSED ACROSS THE ROOM AND THE KIDS WERE TOSSED OUT OF THE SWIMMING POOL. THEY WERE ON A CRUISE TO ALASAKA.

CHRISTIAN WIETOSKA, THE GERMAN EXCHANGE STUDENT FROM MAQUOKETA, TOOK THE CLASS 1-A STATE HIGH SCHOOL TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIP. HE HAS LIVED WITH LARRY AND ALICE HAGER IN MAQUOKETA. YES, LARRY IS STILL SIGN PAINTING AND YES, ALICE IS STILL A KINDERGARDEN TEACHER.

NANCY AND I WENT TO THE FIREMEN'S BREAKFAST THIS MORNING. GOOD TURNOUT...HAD TO WAIT IN LINE FOR ABOUT 10 MINUTES. SAT WITH BOB AND DELORES ERICKSON OF MAQUOKETA, BOTH RETIRED. WELL, DELORES WORKS A LITTLE AT SQUIRES MANOR BED AND BREAKFAST. ANYWAY, THEY JUST RETURNED FROM A 10-DAY VISIT TO FRANCE, WHERE THEIR DAUGHTER AND FAMILY LIVES. BOTH SHE AND HUSBAND WORK FOR IBM AND WILL BE THERE FOR 2 YEARS. THEY HAVE A BABY THATS 2. HAD A GOOD TIME AND HOPE TO GO BACK AGAIN BEFORE THE 2 YEARS ARE UP. DELORES WORKED AT THE HIGH SCHOOL FOR MANY YEARS, SO MANY OF YOU KNOW HER.

HARRY DOLPHIN OF OMAHA, AGE 76, DIED MAY 12. HE WAS A 1942 GRAD OF MAQUOKETA HIGH SCHOOL HE FORMERLY WORKED FOR THE ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS. SURVIVED BY A WIFE AND SON, BOTH IN OMAHA. ANYBODY REMEMBER HIM?

RALPH KAUFFMAN, AGE 82, DIED MAY 24TH OF HEART FAILURE. HE WAS A LAWYER, BLIND, AND WORKED IN JACKSON COUNTY LAW FOR ABOUT 11 YEARS, THEN WENT TO DES MOINES TO BE ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT FOR THEN SENATOR CLIFF LAMBORN. STAYED IN DES MOINES WHERE HE WORKED FOR A COUPLE DIFFERENT STATE OFFICES. IS SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE.

IN GIRLS GOLF, AT STATE, MCHS TWINS BROOKE AND BRITTNEY DAVIS, PLAYED IN THE COLD RAIN AND TOOK 7TH AND 8TH PLACE. BROOKE SHOT A 171 AND BRITTNEY A 176. THEY WILL BOTH BE BACK NEXT YEAR.

THE MCHS GIRLS SOFTBALL TEAM OPENED UP THE SEASON THIS WEEK WITH A DOUBLE-HEADER WIN OVER NORTH CEDAR. THEY ARE AGAIN COACHED THIS YEAR BY JULIE MCALISTER.

I AM GOING TO ENTER THIS BEFORE I LOOSE IT...THEN I WILL COME BACK FOR CLOSING NEWS. SO...PART TWO OF THE SUNDAY REPORT COMING UP.








 

NO RAIN YESTERDAY OR LAST NIGHT...WAS SUPPOSE TO RAIN TODAY, BUT DID NOT AND WE GOT UP INTO THE 60'S WITH MOSTLY SUNNY SKIES.

THE MAQUOKETA SCHOOL DISTRICT BOARD OF EDUCATION HAS ANNOUNED THE NAMES OF 3 PEOPLE THEY WILL INTERVIEW FOR THE POSITION OF SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS. THOSE WHO APPLIED FOR THE JOB .. AND THERE WERE ABOUT 15...AND EXPECTED TO BE INTERVIEWED NEXT WEEK: KIM HUCKSTADT, OF MAQUOKETA, CURRENTLY THE MIDDLE SCHOOL PRINCIPAL HERE.
BEVERLY GOERDT OF PEOSTA, K-12 CURRICULUM DIRECTOR AND ELEMENTARY PRINCIPLE OF THE WESTERN DUBUQUE SCHOOL DISTRICT...AND DAVID BRADLEY OF MARION, FORMER SUPEINTENDENT AT ANDREW AND LISBON AND NOW THE ASST. SUPT. AND BUSINESS MANAGER AT MARION.

DON REYNER'S CAR WAS KEYED AND SCRATCHED SOMETIME THIS WEEK HERE IN MAQUOKETA AND THE ESTIMATED DAMAGE, $1,472. DON IS A RETIRED POSTMAN FROM MAQUOKETA.

RICK GARIEN, AGE 45, WAS ARRESTED THIS AFTERNOON AS A RESULT OF AN ARREST WARRANT ISSUED FROM THE COUNTY ATTORNEY'S OFFICE. HE WAS TAKEN INTO CUSTODY BY THE JACKSON COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE ON CHARGES OF MANUFACTURING OR CONSPIRING TO MANUFACTURE METHAPHETAMINE. ITEMS CONSISTENT WITH THE MANUFACTURE OF THE DRUG WERE FOUND IN APRIL OF 1999 AS THE RESULT OF A SEARCH WARRANT. HE IS BEING HELD AT THE LOCAL DETENTION CENTER ON A $65,000 BOND. HE AND HIS MOTHER AND BROTHER OWN AND OPERATE GARIEN PLUMBING.

FLORENCE "TOOTIE" HOLDGRAFER, AGE 82, OF PRESTON DIED TODAY AT THE CRESTRIGE NURSING HOME IN MAQUOKETA. SHE IS SURIVIVED BY 2 DAUGHTERS AND 7 SONS, INCLUDING ROBERT HOLDGRAFER OF MAQUOKETA.

HOWARD AND LOIS ELKINS WILL CELEBRATE THEIR 50TH WEDDING ANNIVERSARY ON JUNE 14TH. HOWARD, FORMER MAYOR OF MAQUOKETA, OPERATED HOWARD'S TV SERVICE FOR 30 YEARS, RETIRING IN 1982. THE COUPLE HAS 5 CHILDREN.

DOUG MELVOLD, PUBLISHER OF THE MAQUOKETA NEWSPAPERS, WILL GIVE THE MEMORIAL DAY ADDRESS IN OXFORD JUNCTION.

MAYNARD KLOFT HAS RETIRED AFTER 34 YEARS WITH KARTRIDGE PACK OF DAVENPORT.

BRAD DEERY MOTORS IS HAVING THEIR BIG SLASHER SALE TOMORROW ONLY..SOME USED CARS SELLING AS LOW AS $99.

"PEARL HARBOR" STARTS TONIGHT AT THE VOY 3 THEATRE. WE ARE PRETTY HAPPY TO GET THE MOVIE FIRST-RUN. OUR NEW ADMISSION RATE ALSO GOES INTO EFFECT TONIGHT. ADULTS $6.00, KIDS 12 AND UNDER, $4.00.
BARGAIN ADMISSION SATURDAY AND SUNDAY AFTERNOON AND WEDNESDAY NIGHTS WILL BE $4.00. AT THE DRIVE-IN, NEW RATE..ALSO $6.00 (FIRST INCREASE SINCE 1995) AND KIDS 12 AND UNDER FREE, PLUS..DURING THE SUMMER, THE DRIVER OF EVERY CAR GETS IN FREE. IN DAVENPORT, THE THEATRE ADMISSION FOR ADULTS WAS $8.25, LAST TIME I CHECKED. THE CIRCUS WILL BE IN MAQUOKETA SUNDAY FOR TWO PERFORMANCES....ADULTS $12 AND KIDS $6. STOCK CAR ADMISSION HERE IN TOWN IS $8 FOR ADULTS AND YESTERDAY, AT THE NEW STADIUM IN MILWAUKEE, WE SAT IN $32 SEATS OUT IN RIGHT FIELD A WAYS. GOOD SEATS. ANYWAY....IT COST MORE TO GO ANYWHERE THESE DAYS, STARTING FIRST WITH THE GASOLINE.

WEATHER PERMITTING TOMORROW MORNING AT 6 A.M....LEGION AND VFW MEMBERS AND VOLUNTEERS WILL PUT UP AROUND 275 FLAGS FOR MAQUOKETA'S ANNUAL AVENUE OF FLAGS AT MT. HOPE AND SACRED HEART CEMETERIES.

DRIVE SAFELY IF TRAVELING OVER THE HOLIDAY. BUCKLE UP.

DENNIS VOY

 

I JUST LOST A VERY LONG REPORT AGAIN..MOMENTS BEFORE I WAS GOING TO
SEND IT OUT....30 MINUTES WORTH...SO HERE GOES AGAIN...

COOL, WET AND CLOUDY TODAY.

I USE ALL CAPS FOR THIS REPORT BECAUSE IT TAKES LESS TIME...I MENTIONED THIS BEFORE...BUT SOME OF YOU DID NOT SEE IT. SO, I WILL CONTINUE DOING THIS.

I'M SORRY, I REALLY DON'T HAVE ANOTHER HALF-HOUR TODAY TO FINISH THIS.

TOMMORROW, I HAVE A BUSLOAD GOING WITH ME TO THE CARD-BREWERS GAME AT MILWAUKEE.

NEXT WEEK, A 4-DAY KMAQ-TRAVEL BUS TO BRANSON.

THIS MAY BE MY LAST TIME YOU HEAR FROM ME UNTIL JUNE 2ND OR 3RD...

UNLESS I GET A CHANCE TO DO ONE THIS WEEKEND.

SORRY.

THANKS TO THE MAQUOKETA MEA...MAQUOKETA EDUCATION ASSOCIATION..
FOR HONORING ME WITH THEIR ANNUAL "FRIEND OF EDUCATION" AWARD LAST NIGHT AT MICKEL'S CATERING HALL. NANCY AND I ENJOYED THE DINNER TOO. WE WERE HOSTED BY MR. AND MRS. WARREN ROBERTS AND SALLY FELTEN.

KEVIN AND LISA OETKEN ARE PARENTS OF A GIRL, BORN MAY 9TH, AT LOCAL HOSPITAL..THEIR 2ND CHILD. GRANDMOTHER IS IRENE KLEINSMITH OF MAQUOKETA.

NO DEATHS.

JAKE BICKFORD'S BIRTHDAY IS SUNDAY...BUT MORE IMPORTANT, JUDY, HIS WIFE, CELEBRATES THE BIG 6-0 MONDAY. MANY OF YOU HAD HER AS A TEACHER.

TEACHERS OF THE YEAR LAST NIGHT...DORIS HAYES, ELEMENTARY AND BARB
NELSON, HIGH SCHOOL. SHE RETIRES THIS YEAR, AFTER 32 YEARS AT MCHS.

RUSS LONG IS NEW JACKSON COUNTY DEPUTY SHERIFF..AN ADDED POSITION...NOW 9 OFFICERS STRONG...HE IS CURRENTLY PRESTON POLICE CHIEF.

HAVE A GOOD MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND.

DENNIS VOY
 

AN INCH AND A HALF OF RAIN YESTERDAY AFTERNOON AND LAST NIGHT.
CLOUDY THIS MORNING AND PARTY SUNNY THIS AFTERNOON WITH A HIGH
OF 66. COLD WEATHER PREDICTED FOR TOMORROW AND WEDNESDAY.

THE 123RD ANNUAL COMMENCEMENT FOR THE MAQUOKETA HIGH SCHOOL WAS HELD YESTERDAY AFTERNOON ON THE EAST LAWN OF THE HIGH SCHOOL CAMPUS. A LIGHT RAIN SENT SPECTAT0RS SCURRYING AT THE END OF THE CEREMONY, BUT ALL 145 SENIORS RECEIVED THEIR DIPLOMAS...AS THEY SPED UP THE DIPLOMA PASS-OUTS TO BEAT HEAVY RAIN, WHICH DID COME LATER IN AFTERNOON.
THE SALUTATORIAN WAS ROSE DONOVAN AND CO-VALDECTORIANS WITH A PERFECT 4.0 GRADE ARE AIMEE LUETT AND ANGELA ALTHOFF. FOLLOWING A VOTE BY JUNIOR PARENTS, NEXT YEAR'S TENTATIVE COMMENCEMENT CEREMONIES DAY WILL BE JUNE 2ND.

SHARON RETTIG OF MAQUOKETA, A REGISTERED INVESEMENT ADVISOR WITH BERTHEL-FISHER AND COMPANY, WAS RECENTLY RECOGNIZED AS A RECIPIENT
TO THE PRESIDENT'S CLUB CONFERENCE THAT WAS HELD IN KEY WEST, FLORIDA.
CONGRATULATIONS SHARON.

CHARLES AND KRISTINE KILBURG OF ELDRIDGE ARE THE PARENTS OF A BOY BORN YESTERDAY IN DAVENPORT. GRANDPARENTS ARE DON AND VIOLA KILBURG OF MAQUOKETA.

A FORMER GENERAL MANAGER OF KMAQ DIED SATURDAY AT HIS HOME IN MAQUOKETA. DUANE WILLEY, AGE 72, HAS NOT BEEN ABLE TO WORK SINCE A CAR ACCIDENT AROUND 1960. HE WAS CARED FOR BY HIS WIFE, BEVERLY, WHO SURVIVES. DUANE WILLEY CAME TO MAQUOKETA IN THE 50'S, WAS IN THE 2ND WORLD WAR AND KOREAN WAR AND GRADUATED FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA BETWEEN THE TWO WARS. IN THE LATE 50'S, IN ADDITION TO OWNING A SMALL FARM WEST OF MAQUOKETA NEAR THE BOY SCOUT CAMP ITEM, HE WORKED AS AN ADVERTISING PERSON FOR THE MAQUOKETA NEWSPAPERS. THERE HE WORKED WITH WELL KNOWN MAQUOKETA AUTHOR,THE LATE JOHN SCHOLL. WHEN KMAQ WENT ON THE AIR IN AUGUST OF 1958, DUANE WAS HIRED AS ADVERTISING MANAGER FOR THEN DAYTIME KMAQ-AM ONLY.
I ALSO JOINED THE STATION THEN AND BECAME GOOD FRIENDS WITH DUANE. IN FACT, WE BECAME PARTNERS IN HOPES OF BUYING OUR OWN SMALL STATION AND THEN LATER HAD PLANS FOR BUILDING A NEW ONE IN WISCONSIN. BUT, THE CAR ACCIDENT, STOPPED THOSE PLANS. DUANE WAS NAMED MANAGER OF KMAQ IN THE SUMMER OF 1959, WHEN MANAGER BOB BROWN MOVED TO WISCONSIN TO MANAGE A NEW STATION THERE. I BELIEVE DUANE'S ACCIDENT WAS SOMETIME DURING THE SUMMER OF 1960. HE IS SURVIVED ALSO BY SON MARK, WHO LIVES IN MAQUOKETA AND DAUGHTERS DAWN OF WISCONSIN AND EMELIE OF MISSOURI AND TWO GRANDCHILDREN. FOR MOST OF THE 40 YEARS SINCE THE ACCIDENT, WHICH HAPPENED WHEN HE WAS RIDING IN A CAR WITH HIS BROTHER DON, HE WOULD COME AT LEAST WEEKLY TO DOWNTOWN MAQUOKETA WHERE HE CHEERFULLY VISITED WITH HIS MANY FRIENDS. THE LAST COUPLE YEARS, HE WAS NOT ABLE TO DO THAT AND I CAN'T REMEMBER THE LAST TIME THAT WE TALKED. HIS FUNERAL WILL BE TOMORROW AND BURIAL WILL BE AT A LATER DATE IN RANDOLPH, WISCONSIN. THE INITIAL STAFF OF KMAQ IN 1958 NUMBERED 8. DUANE IS THE 3RD TO LEAVE US. MANY YEARS AGO, OUR TRAFFIC GIRL, GITA BOLLINGER, DIED OF CANCER AND ALSO MANY YEARS AGO, CHEIF ENGINEER AND MORNING ANNOUNCER RAY SHIELDS, DIED IN HIS LATER HOME IN ARKANSAS. NO ONE WILL EVER KNOW WHAT DUANE WOULD HAVE ACCOMPLISHED HAD IT NOT BEEN FOR THAT ONE-SECOND WHEN THE CAR COULD NOT BE CONTROLLED. MY SYMPATHY IS EXTENDED TO BEVERLY AND FAMILY.
BEVERLY, NOW RETIRED FROM TEACHING, HAD A HARD, BUSY LIFE... TEACHING, CARING FOR HER FAMILY AND DUANE. I ALWAYS ADMIRED HER FOR THAT. AND DUANE..WILL FINIALLY REST IN PEACE.

TAKE CARE AND COME BACK TOMORROW.

DENNIS VOY


 

NICE TODAY, HIGH 80.

IT WAS SPRING FLING DAY IN MAQUOKETA TODAY....FEATURING IN-STORE SPECIALS, PETTING ZOO, BURGERS OFF THE GRILL PREPARED BY THE MAY BEEF MONTH CATTLE ASSOCIATION...BINGO AND MORE. NOT A BIG TURNOUT, BUT EVER SINCE THE COMING OF WAL-MART AND THE CLOSING OF TRAFFIC-BUILDING DOWNTOWN STORES, YOU JUST DON'T GET BIG CROWDS ANYMORE...LIKE IN THE OLD DAYS. I HAD A COUPLE BURGERS...AND A FUNNEL CAKE (SHARED WITH MY GRANDDAUGHTER) AND THEN CONDUCTED THE BINGO GAME FOR ABOUT 30-MINUTES.

ALSO, DURING THE EVENT THIS AFTERNOON, THEY HAD AN AUCTION...CONDUCTED BY AMATEUR BRUCE ENGEL OF ENGLE INSURANCE.....THE REAL AUCTIONEER DIDN'T SHOW.....WHICH SOLD THE RIGHT FOR THE FIRST FOUR-SOME TO PLAY THE NEW TIMBER CITY GOLF COURSE, THAT OPENS SOON BY RICH AND MARY JO HAINSTOCK. THE WINNING BID WAS $400. THE MONEY WAS GIVEN TO THE ARC COMMITTEE, RAISING FUNDS FOR THE NEW REC CENTER FOR MAQUOKETA.... THE LUCKY GUY IS DR. DAVID SYBESMA, MAQUOKETA OPTOMITRIST. HE'S FROM MAQUOKETA AND THE OTHER THREE THAT WILL HAVE THE HONOR AND PLAY WITH HIM, ALL FROM MAQUOKETA, ARE DON CARSON,OF CARSON AND SON FUNERAL HOME....BUDDY ATIENZA, DENTIST AND TROY THIEDE, OWNER OF THE DECKER HOTEL AND RESTAURANT. THEY WILL PLAY THE HISTORIC FIRST-ROUND...NINE HOLES, ON FRIDAY NIGHT, JUNE 8TH. THEN, THE COURSE WILL OPEN OFFICIALLY THE NEXT MORNING, AT 8 A.M. I DROVE OUT AND SAW IT THE OTHER DAY. THE STREET INTO IT..... AND FOR THE HOUSING AREA, IS FINISHED WITH CURB AND GUTTER. FROM WHAT I COULD SEE FROM THE CAR,IT LOOKED VERY NICE. RICH HAS A SMALL PRO SHOP, WITH DECK, WHERE SANDWICHES AND DRINKS WILL BE SOLD AND WHERE YOU CAN LOOK OVER THE 9-HOLE COURSE. THE BUILDING LOTS ARE BIG, WITH BEAUTIFUL GOLF COURSE VIEWS AND ARE PRICED AROUND $40,000 A LOT. MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND, RICH AND MARY JO ARE OPENING THE COURSE TO WALKERS...WHO CAN CHECK IT OUT BY WALKING IT. FOR RICH, IT HAS BEEN A ONE-AND-A-HALF-YEAR PROJECT AND HE'S LOOKING FORWARD TO MAKING THE SWITCH FROM GOLF COURSE DEVELOPER TO GOLF COURSE OPERATOR.
IT WILL BE A PUBLIC COURSE, .. GREEN FEES, NO MEMBERSHIPS. THE FOURTH COURSE IN JACKSON COUNTY. THERE ARE LONGTIME COURSES IN BELLEVUE AND MAQUOKETA AND ONE THAT OPENED A COUPLE YEARS AGO AT PRESTON. THE NEW PRIVATELY-OWNED TIMBER CITY GOLF COURSE IS LOCATED AT THE SOUTH EDGE OF MAQUOKETA.

AN ATV ACCIDENT EARLY THIS MORNING KILLED A SPRAGUEVILLE TEENAGER.
THE ACCIDENT HAPPENED ON A GRAVEL ROAD ABOUT 2 MILES NORTH OF ANDREW. LUKE SAUNDERS, AGE 19,DIED AT THE HOSPITAL AND A PASSENGER, ELIZABETH ZELLER OF ANDREW, AGE 16, WAS TRANSFERRED FROM THE LOCAL
HOSPITAL TO MERCY IN DUBUQUE. THE ATV LEFT THE ROAD AND HIT A TREE.

JACKSON COUNTY'S UNEMPLOYMENT RATE DROPPED IN APRIL. IN MARCH IT WAS 5.8 PERCENT AND IN APRIL, IT WENT DOWN TO 4.2. A YEAR AGO, IT WAS AT 4.3. IOWA IS AT 2.7. THE U.S. RATE IS 4.3.

BERNIE AND ELEANOR MISHLER OF MAQUOKETA WILL CELEBRATE THIER 60TH ANNIVERSARY MAY 29TH. BERNIE IS RETIRED FROM THE LIVESTOCK BUSINESS.

THE MCHS CLASS OF 1937 WILL CELEBRATE THEIR 64TH REUNION AT THE DEPOT IN MAQUOKETA. LOLA HAYES AND ROSS DAVIS ARE IN CHARGE.

FRANK STRATHMAN IS RETIRING AS A BIOLOGY TEACHER AT MCHS AFTER 34 YEARS. GOING TO DO A LOT OF FISHING. A FEW YEARS AGO, FRANK AND HISA WIFE BARB MOVED TO BELLEVUE AND HAVE A HOUSE OVERLOOKING THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER. THEY HAVE 2 SONS, ERIC AND CHAD AND 3 GRANDCHILDREN.

MAYOR JACK ROSENBERG TOLD ME TODAY THAT VERL AND KATHY BANOWETZ OF BANOWETZ ANTIQUES BOUGHT THE FORMER ROLLER RINK BUILDING NEXT TO THEIR BIG ANTIQUE MALL IN MAQUOKETA. DON'T KNOW WHAT THEIR PLANS ARE, BUT I'LL KEEP YOU POSTED. IT IS BETTER THAN 12,000 SQUARE FEET AND HAS BEEN USED AS A WAREHOUSE FOR THE PILLOW FACTORY. THE MALL IS OVER 30,000 SQUARE FEET. AND, VERL AND KATHY ALSO HAVE THEIR HIGHWAY 61 NORTH LOCATION FOR ANTIQUES...THE ORIGINAL HOME OF THEIR FAMOUS BUSINESS, NEXT TO THEIR PRIVATE HOUSE. THEY HAVE THEIR BIG MEMORIAL DAY SALE COMING UP NEXT WEEKEND AND THEIR GIGANTIC 4TH OF JULY WEEKEND SALE IS AFTER THAT. AND OF COURSE, THEY STILL HAVE THEIR SQUIRES MANOR BED AND BREAKFAST, ONE OF THE BIGGEST AND BEST IN THE MIDDLE-WEST. THEIR SON IS INVOLVED WITH THE BUSINESS ALSO AND HAS RECENTLY GRADUATED FROM COLLEGE. REAL GOERS THEY ARE....BRINGING LOTS OF PEOPLE TO MAQUOKETA.

GOTTA GO...HAVE TO DO THE 5 P.M. NEWS FINAL ON KMAQ AM AND FM AS ANNOUNCER JIMMY SAUNDERS IS STILL ON VACATION. HE WILL BE BACK MONDAY.

EIGHT GRADUATIONS IN AREA TOMORROW, INCLUDING MAQUOKETA'S...ON THE HIGH SCHOOL LAWN.

HAVE A GOOD SUNDAY.

DENNIS VOY  

WARM TODAY AGAIN..84 THE HIGH...BUT COOLER WEATHER IS FORECAST FOR SATURDAY AND SUNDAY.

MAQUOKETA HAS TWO NEW WELCOME SIGNS...ONE YOU READ WHEN COMING FROM THE SOUTH ON 4-LANE 61 AND THE OTHER WHEN COMING FORM THE WEST ON HIGHWAY 64. THE WEST SIGN HAS LIGHTS AND THE SOUTH SIGN WILL HAVE LIGHTS SOON. THE TWO COST $20,000 TOTAL. NOW, THE COMMITTEE HAS PLANS FOR IDENTICAL SIGNS FOR THE NORTH END OF MAQUOKETA, TO WELCOME THOSE COMING TO MAQUOKETA FROM THE NORTH ON 61 AND A SIGN TOO ON HIGHWAY 64 EAST FOR THOSE COMING TO MAQUOKETA FROM THE EAST.
BOTH WILL ALSO BE LIGHTED AND BOTH ALSO WILL COST A TOTAL OF $20,000.
THEY JUST SAY MAQUOKETA...NOTHING MORE...AND ARE VERY LARGE.
BIG STONE, WITH LETTERS ENGRAVED LIKE THEY DO WITH CEMETERY MEMORIAL STONES. KATE CARINDER IS THE HEAD OF THE COMMITTEE WORKING ON GETTING THE 2ND TWO IN PLACE. ONE SHOULD BE DONE THIS FALL AND THE FINAL OF THE FOUR SOMETIME NEXT SPRING. WHO WOULD HAVE EVER THOUGHT THAT MAQUOKETA WOULD HAVE ENTRY SIGNS TOTALING AROUND $40,000.
THE FIRST TWO WERE PAID FOR BY A CASINO GRANT. THE MAQUOKETA AREA FOUNDATION GAVE $5,000 THIS WEEK TOWARD THE SECOND PAIR AND I HAVE NOT HEARD HOW THEY EXPECT TO RAISE THE REST OF THE BALANCE. I'M SURE IF ANY OF YOU WOULD SEND IN A THOUSAND OR TWO, THEY WOULD TAKE YOUR CHECK CHEERFULLY.

NO BIRTHS OR DEATHS TO REPORT. BOTH FUNERAL HOMES HAVE NOT HAD
A CALL..AS THEY SAY...FOR OVER A WEEK...VERY UNUSUAL. GOOD LIVING
IN MAQUOKETA I GUESS.

WHITETAIL RUN IS HAVING ITS OPEN HOUSE TODAY AND TOMORROW. AN
APARTMENT COMPLEX WITH 24 APARTMENTS ON MYATT DRIVE, IN THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF TOWN, OUT BY THE ENTRYWAY TO SWAGOSA SUBDIVISION. OWNED BY A FIRM OUT OF IOWA CITY. IT IS FOR PEOPLE 62 AND OVER. ONE-BEDROOM APARTMENTS...WITH A COMMON SOCIAL ROOM AND ALSO A LAUNDRY FOR SHARING.
SUBSIDIZED BY THE GOVERNMENT. RENT CAN BE AS LITTLE AS $100 OR LESS,DEPENDING ON HOW MUCH SOCIAL SECURITY THE PERSON GETS. I DID A COUPLE REMOTE BROADCASTS FROM IT TODAY. THEY ARE VERY NICE...AND HAVE NICE GROUNDS, LIGHTING AND PARKING AROUND THEM TOO. DOUG AND CHILEE BROWN OF MAQUOKETA ARE PART-TIME CO-MANAGERS. THEY HAVE A COUPLE OF THE APARTMENTS RENTED ALREADY. THE NEW SENIOR HOUSING APARTMENTS DOWNTOWN NEAR CITY HALL, BEHIND THE THEATRE...ARE ALL RENTED. NEW CURB AND GUTTER WORK WAS DONE THIS WEEK AND THEY PLANTED A LOT OF TREES AND SCHRUBS. THE COMPLEX, NAMED THE HURST APARTMENTS, IS VERY NICE. AGAIN..JUST FOR SENIORS. NEITHER OF THE TWO NEW APARTMENT BUILDINGS HAS GARAGE FACILITIES.

MAQUOKETA IS GROWING.

HAVE A NICE WEEKEND.

DENNIS VOY.


 

WARM TODAY AGAIN..84 THE HIGH...BUT COOLER WEATHER IS FORECAST FOR SATURDAY AND SUNDAY.

MAQUOKETA HAS TWO NEW WELCOME SIGNS...ONE YOU READ WHEN COMING FROM THE SOUTH ON 4-LANE 61 AND THE OTHER WHEN COMING FORM THE WEST ON HIGHWAY 64. THE WEST SIGN HAS LIGHTS AND THE SOUTH SIGN WILL HAVE LIGHTS SOON. THE TWO COST $20,000 TOTAL. NOW, THE COMMITTEE HAS PLANS FOR IDENTICAL SIGNS FOR THE NORTH END OF MAQUOKETA, TO WELCOME THOSE COMING TO MAQUOKETA FROM THE NORTH ON 61 AND A SIGN TOO ON HIGHWAY 64 EAST FOR THOSE COMING TO MAQUOKETA FROM THE EAST.
BOTH WILL ALSO BE LIGHTED AND BOTH ALSO WILL COST A TOTAL OF $20,000.
THEY JUST SAY MAQUOKETA...NOTHING MORE...AND ARE VERY LARGE.
BIG STONE, WITH LETTERS ENGRAVED LIKE THEY DO WITH CEMETERY MEMORIAL STONES. KATE CARINDER IS THE HEAD OF THE COMMITTEE WORKING ON GETTING THE 2ND TWO IN PLACE. ONE SHOULD BE DONE THIS FALL AND THE FINAL OF THE FOUR SOMETIME NEXT SPRING. WHO WOULD HAVE EVER THOUGHT THAT MAQUOKETA WOULD HAVE ENTRY SIGNS TOTALING AROUND $40,000.
THE FIRST TWO WERE PAID FOR BY A CASINO GRANT. THE MAQUOKETA AREA FOUNDATION GAVE $5,000 THIS WEEK TOWARD THE SECOND PAIR AND I HAVE NOT HEARD HOW THEY EXPECT TO RAISE THE REST OF THE BALANCE. I'M SURE IF ANY OF YOU WOULD SEND IN A THOUSAND OR TWO, THEY WOULD TAKE YOUR CHECK CHEERFULLY.

NO BIRTHS OR DEATHS TO REPORT. BOTH FUNERAL HOMES HAVE NOT HAD
A CALL..AS THEY SAY...FOR OVER A WEEK...VERY UNUSUAL. GOOD LIVING
IN MAQUOKETA I GUESS.

WHITETAIL RUN IS HAVING ITS OPEN HOUSE TODAY AND TOMORROW. AN
APARTMENT COMPLEX WITH 24 APARTMENTS ON MYATT DRIVE, IN THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF TOWN, OUT BY THE ENTRYWAY TO SWAGOSA SUBDIVISION. OWNED BY A FIRM OUT OF IOWA CITY. IT IS FOR PEOPLE 62 AND OVER. ONE-BEDROOM APARTMENTS...WITH A COMMON SOCIAL ROOM AND ALSO A LAUNDRY FOR SHARING.
SUBSIDIZED BY THE GOVERNMENT. RENT CAN BE AS LITTLE AS $100 OR LESS,DEPENDING ON HOW MUCH SOCIAL SECURITY THE PERSON GETS. I DID A COUPLE REMOTE BROADCASTS FROM IT TODAY. THEY ARE VERY NICE...AND HAVE NICE GROUNDS, LIGHTING AND PARKING AROUND THEM TOO. DOUG AND CHILEE BROWN OF MAQUOKETA ARE PART-TIME CO-MANAGERS. THEY HAVE A COUPLE OF THE APARTMENTS RENTED ALREADY. THE NEW SENIOR HOUSING APARTMENTS DOWNTOWN NEAR CITY HALL, BEHIND THE THEATRE...ARE ALL RENTED. NEW CURB AND GUTTER WORK WAS DONE THIS WEEK AND THEY PLANTED A LOT OF TREES AND SCHRUBS. THE COMPLEX, NAMED THE HURST APARTMENTS, IS VERY NICE. AGAIN..JUST FOR SENIORS. NEITHER OF THE TWO NEW APARTMENT BUILDINGS HAS GARAGE FACILITIES.%0  

NO REPORT TODAY  

ANOTHER MID 80'S DAY....ABOVE NORMAL...BUT MOST PEOPLE ARE ENJOYING IT.

THE JACKSON COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS HAVE NOT APPROVED A LIQUOR
LICENSE FOR THE BELLEVUE HORSEMAN'S CLUB FOR THE AUGUST RODEO THIS YEAR. SUPERVIORS ARE CONCERNED ABOUT THE THREE FATALITIES ON THE HIGHWAY NEAR THE RODEO OVER THE LAST TWO YEARS. THE ACCIDENTS OCCURED ON THE NIGHTS OF THE RODEO. I'LL KEEP YOU POSTED.

THE MAQUOKETA MUNICIPAL ELECTRIC UTILITY HAS HIRED DOUG OWEN AS PERMANENT MANAGER OF THE UTILITY. HE HAS SERVED AS INTERIM MANAGER SINCE OCTOBER. HE HAS BEEN GIVEN A ONE YEAR CONTRACT AT A SALARY OF $45,000. HE AND HIS WIFE ALSO RUN THE LANDROMAT ON EAST PLATT STREET.

THE SAVANNA-SABULA BRIDGE, CLOSED BECAUSE OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER FLOODING, HAS FINIALLY RE-OPENED. THE RIVER IS GOING DOWN SLIGHTLY AND THINGS ARE STARTING TO GET BACK TO NORMAL. BARGE TRAFFIC IS OPEN DOWN TO DUBUQUE AGAIN, BUT NOT DOWN TO BELLELVUE.

ANOTHER STOLEN VEHICLE IN JACKSON COUNTY....WE HAVE HAD A RASH OF THEM. KEITH TROXEL REPORTED YESTERDAY AFTERNOON THAT A TRUCK WAS FOUND ON HIS PROPERTY NEAR SPRINGBROOK. IT HAD NO PLATES AND THE
V-I-N NUMBER SHOWED IT WAS OWNED BY DARRELL TEBBE. BUT THEN LATER IN AFTERNOON, NIC ROE OF DARK HALLOW ROAD SAID HIS 80 FORD TRUCK HAD BEEN STOLEN MONDAY NIGHT. APPARENTLY TEBBE HAD RECENTLY SOLD THE
TRUCK TO ROE AND THE INFORMATION OF TRANFER WAS NOT IN THE STATE'S COMPUTER. DEPUTIES ARE ASKING CRIME STOPPERS FOR HELP IN FINDING OUT WHO STOLE THE TRUCK AND DAMAGED IT.

A MAQUOKETA ACCIDENT. RANDALL DIESING, AGE 34, OF MAQUOKETA, WAS PULLING A CATTLE TRAILER ON HIGHWAY 61. FATHER TOM MCDERMOTT, OF MAQUOKETA, DIDN'T SEE THE TRUCK AND TRAILER AND SLAMMED INTO THE REAR OF THE DIESING TRAILER. DAMAGE TO THE GOOSENECK TRAILER, AROUND $4000 AND TO MCDERMOTT'S CAR, $12,000. NO INJURIES. FATHER MCDERMOTT WAS CHARGED WITH FAILURE TO MAINTAIN CONTROL.

DALE SCHMIDT OF MAQUOKETA HIT A DEER MONDAY NIGHT.

THE IOCO STATION IN ANDREW REPORTED A DRIVE-OFF WITHOUT PAYING FOR $15 WORTH OF GAS. WE HAVE HAD MUCH OF THIS RECENTLY.

WADE MOONEY, AGE 37, OF MAQUOKETA, HAS BEEN CHARGED WITH DOMESTIC ASSAULT. POLICE WERE CALLED TO AN APARTMENT YESTERDAY AFTERNOON TO A REPORT OF A FIGHT. YVONNE MOONEY SAID HER HUSBAND HIT HER INTHE HEAD AND PULLED AN EARRING OUT OF HER EAR. OUCH!

NO LOCAL BIRTHS OR DEATHS.

MAQUOKETA IS LEAVING THE BIG BEND CONFERENCE, EFFECTIVE THE FALL
OF 2003. GOING BACK TO AN EXPANDED WAMAC CONFERENCE. THERE WILL PROBABLY BE 12 TEAMS IN THE CONFERENCE, AND PROBABLY AN EAST AND WEST DIVISION. MORE LATER.

GOTTA GO! ON THE AIR IN 2 MINUTES. HAVE AN ANNOUNCER ON VACATION THIS WEEK.

ST. LOUIS CARDINALS HAVE WON 8 IN A ROW. KEEP GOING CARDINALS!
THE CUBS ARE IN 4TH PLACE...SOB SOB.

DENNIS VOY





 

HOT TODAY...88...2 DEGREES SHORT OF THE RECORD FOR THIS DAY.

A SEMI-TRUCK RAN INTO THE REAR OF A FARM TRACTOR PULLING A GRINDER-MIXER ON HIGHWAY 61 YESTERDAY MORNING. THE DRIVER OF THE TRACTOR, JAMIE SUTTON, AGE 35, OF MAQUOKETA AND HIS 4-YEAR-OLD SON, EVAN, BOTH
RECEIVED MINOR INJURIES. $5,000 DAMAGE TO THE JOHN DEERE TRACTOR AND $20,000 DAMAGE TO THE 99-SEMI.

NO BIRTHS OR DEATHS.

SHORT REPORT...SORRY.

CHECK BACK TOMORROW.

DENNIS VOY  

WE HAD NICE WEATHER OVER THE MOM'S DAY WEEKEND. THIS MORNING, AROUND 4, WE HAD A THUNDERSTORM AND GOT OVER A HALF-INCH OF RAIN BEFORE IT ALL ENDED AT 6. SKIES CLEARED AT MID-MORNING AND WE GOT UP TO 83 TODAY.

RAN INTO JOHN AND MABEL JONES YESTERDAY AT WAL MART. BOTH SPENT THE
WINTER IN MESA, ARIZONA AND GOT BACK TO MAQUOKETA LATE LAST WEEK.
THEY FLEW BACK AND ARRIVED 1 MINUTE LATER THAN THE TICKET SAID...
SO, REGARDLESS OF WHAT WE HEAR, PLANES DO RUN ON TIME ALSO. THEY ARE GLAD TO BE BACK HOME AND LOOK GOOD. IT SOUNDED LIKE THEY WERE SORRY THEY HAD TO LEAVE RON AND SHIRLEY MILLER IN THAT SWEATBOX OF ARIZONA.
IT IS TOO BAD THEY HAVE TO STAY DOWN IN THAT HEAT....BUT THEY ARE WELCOME TO COME UP AGAIN TO 4-SEASONS IOWA. SHIRLEY, IF IT GETS TOO BAD, JUST FOLD A PIECE OF COMPUTER PAPER FROM YOUR PRINTER...LIKE A MODEL AIRPLANE...AND IT MAKES A NICE FAN.

A BARN FIRE AT CHARLOTTE AT 6:30 THIS MORNING AT THE DAVID PLOOG FARM. BARN, 2 VEHICLES AND 1,000 BALES OF HAY DESTROYED IN THE BLAZE.

A DAVENPORT WOMAN, WHO WORKED AS A DANCER AT THE SHAKERS CLUB AT LAMOTTE, WAS KILLED IN A ONE-CAR ACCIDENT EARLY YESTERDAY MORNING ON HIGHWAY 61 AT HURSTVILLE, A MILE OR SO NORTH OF MAQUOKETA. SHE WAS THROWN FROM HER FORD ESCORT AND THEN HER CAR WAS HIT BY ANOTHER.

MICHELLE DAVISON OF MAQUOKETA REPORTED TO POLICE THAT HER 99 CHEVY TAHOE WAS STOLEN AT ABOUT 1:30 SATURDAY MORNING. IT WAS FOUND LESS THAN AN HOUR LATER ON 267TH AVENUE. IT HAD BEEN ROLLED AND WAS A TOTAL LOSS. THE DRIVER WHO TOOK THE CAR WAS NOT FOUND, BUT BLOOD WAS FOUND IN AND OUT OF THE VEHICLE.

LARRY MCCLOY, JR, AGE 22,OF MAQUOKETA WAS IN A 1-CAR ACCIDENT EARLY YESTERDAY MORNING AND WAS CHARGED WITH OWI AFTER. HE WAS DRIVING EAST ON HIGHWAY 64 WHEN HE LOST CONTROL OF THE 90 GMC PICKUP. A
PASSENGER, LORI STICHTER, AGE 23, RECEIVED MINOR INJURIES. MCCLOY WAS ALSO CHARGED WITH FAILURE TO HAVE CONTROL. HIS TRUCK RECEIVED MINOR DAMAGE.

JUSTIN MICHAEL MEAD, AGE 17, OF MAQUOKETA WAS ALSO IN AN ACCIDENT AROUND 6:30 SATURDAY MORNING NORTHEAST OF LAMOTTE. HE WENT ON THE SHOULDER AND OVER-CORRECTED AND ROLLED HIS 95 PLYMOUTH NEON, REGISTERED TO KAREN INTELKOFER OF MAQUOKETA. HE WAS TREATED AT THE LOCAL HOSPITAL FOR MINOR INJURIES.

NO LOCAL DEATHS OR BIRTHS.

THANKS FOR THE VISIT.

DENNIS VOY



 

BRAD DEERY MOT0RS, HIT AGAIN THIS WEEEK...TWO 99 CARS KEYED...AT
$500 DAMAGE. BRAD'S NEW APARTMENT BUILDING IS FILLING UP AND HE IS GOING TO BUILD ANOTHER SOON...RIGHT NEXT TO IT.

A J.C.P.HOSPITAL AMBULANCE RAN INTO A DEER THIS WEEK SOUTH OF MAQUOKETA ON HIGHWAY 61....$2,000 DAMAGE TO THE 95 FORD. NO PATIENTS WERE INSIDE AT THE TIME. IT WAS DRIVEN BY JAMIE SLOUHA. HE WAS NOT INJURED.

"THE COTTAGE" NEW WEB SITE..IS COMPLETE NOW...AND HAS A NEW
PERMANENT ADDRESS...www.thecottage.maquoketa.com IT HAS A GUEST
BOOK AND A PLACE FOR YOU TO ENTER AND CHECK BIRTHDAYS AND
ANNIVERSARIES. I THINK IT WILL BE A POPULAR SITE.

WE HAVE HAD A COUPLE DEATHS THE LAST TWO DAYS...BUT NONE FROM
MAQUOKETA.

IT IS DEFINITE...THE SENIOR CITIZEN'S CENTER ON EAST QUARRY, JUST BEFORE THE FAIR GROUNDS...WILL ALSO BE A SENIOR DAY CARE
...THANKS TO A GRANT. THERE WAS OPPOSITION FROM QUITE A FEW SENIORS, BUT THE CORPORATE BOARD VOTED ON THE MATTER AGAIN THIS THURSDAY AND AGAIN VOTED (6 TO 2) TO ALLOW THE BUILDING TO BE USED A COUPLE DAYS A WEEK TO HOST SENIORS THAT REQUIRE DAY CARE ATTENTION. A COORDINATOR WILL NOW BE HIRED TO OVERSEE THE PROGRAM.

FOR MOTHER'S DAY, THE FRONT PAGE OF THE LOCAL PAPER HAS A FEATURE STORY WITH PICTURE OF BRIAN AND KIM MOORE AND FAMILY OF ZWINGLE.
BRIAN WAS FORMERLY FROM MAQUOKETA...STARRED ON SOME OF BILL FLEMMING'S BASKETBALL TEAMS. THEY HAVE 8 CHILDREN...6 IN SCHOOL AND THE YOUNGEST IS 9 MONTHS. BRIAN AND FAMILY LIVE ON A FARM NEAR ZWINGLE AND HE ALSO RUNS A FEED STORE IN ZWINGLE AND ELWOOD.
KIND OF RARE THESE DAYS FOR A FAMILY OF THAT SIZE.

THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER IS STILL UP....NOT QUITE AS HIGH AS IT WAS.
AND..HARD TO PREDICT WHEN IT WILL GO DOWN TO NORMAL, ESPECIALLY WHEN WE GET RAIN LIKE WE DID THIS WEEK. THE JACKSON COUNTY CONSERVATION BOARD ANNOUNCED THAT THE COUNTY PARKS ALONG THE MISSISSIPPI WILL PROBABLY NOT OPEN UNTIL SOMETIME IN JUNE. THE SAVANNA-SABULA BRIDGE IS STILL CLOSED.

THE NEW GENERAC PLANT, THAT WILL INITIALLY EMPLOY AROUND 200 PEOPLE WHEN THEY GET GOING THIS SUMMER, ALREADY, SO I'M TOLD, HAVE HAD 3,000 APPLCATIONS.

THE PRAIRIE LEAGUE BASEBALL TEAM...NEW SEASON IS UNDERWAY.
THEY PLAY TONIGHT IN FACT. KEITH CROCE IS AGAIN MANAGER.

MAQUOKETA HAS A FOREIGN EXCHANGE STUDENT THAT IS ONE HECK OF A TENNIS PLAYER...AND WILL REPRESENT MCHS AT THE STATE TENNIS TOURNAMENT.

MAQUOKETA'S GOLF TEAM IS NOT DOING WELL THIS SEASON. SPEAKING OF GOLF, THERE IS GOING TO BE AN AUCTION TO DETERMINE WHAT 4-SOME WILL BE THE FIRST TO PLAY THE NEW GOLF COURSE SOUTH OF MAQUOKETA WHEN IS OPENS LATER THIS MONTH. PROCEEDS FROM THE AUCTION WILL BE GIVEN TO THE ARC COMMITTEE, RAISING FUNDS FOR THE NEW 6-MILLION-DOLLAR RECREATION CENTER FOR MAQUOKETA. NICE GESTURE BY OWNERS RICH AND MARY HAINSTOCK.

NEW HOUSES ARE GOING UP THIS SPRING IN MAQUOKETA. NOT SURE HOW MANY YET.

GRADUATION DAY IS NEXT SUNDAY FOR MCHS SENIORS...THE 20TH.

THE PROM LAST SATURDAY NIGHT WENT WELL, AS DID THE AFTER-PROM PARTY AT THE TIMBER LANES.

FIRST LUTHERAN CHURCH IN MAQUOKETA HAS STARTED A FUND DRIVE FOR $900,000 WORTH OF IMPROVEMENTS TO THE CHURCH...INCLUDING EXTRA CLASSROOMS, ELEVATOR, AND MUCH MORE. MORE LATER ON THIS.

AND TIME HAS RUN OUT FOR ME THIS AFTERNOON..

SO WILL CLOSE THIS FINAL REPORT OF THE WEEK..

AND WISH ALL MOTHERS AND GRANDMOTHERS READING THIS A HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY TOMORROW.

NEXT REPORT HOPEFULLY WILL BE MONDAY LATE AFTERNOON.

STAY HAPPY. AND IF YOU ARE NOT HAPPY...DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT.

DENNIS VOY









 

THE ST. LOUIS CARDINALS JUST WON THEIR 6TH IN A ROW THIS AFTERNOON AND TRAIL THE CUBS BY A HALF-GAME.

BAD DAY FOR CUBBIE FANS.

NICE DAY OUTSIDE...IN THE 70'S AND TOMORROW SHOULD BE GOOD FOR MOTHER'S DAY TOO. THURSDAY NIGHT, WE HAD TORNADOS IN THE AREA,
BUT NO DAMAGE. WE HAVE HAD NEARLY 3-INCHES OF RAIN ALREADY FOR MAY.

HAD A GREAT TIME TUESDAY UP IN MILWAUKEE WITH THE BUSLOAD OF 56,
MOSTLY CUBS FANS. THEY WERE NOT HAPPY ABOUT THE LOSS, ESPECIALY JEFF BROWN, A STRONG CUB FAN. HIS WIFE LORI ALSO WENT ON THE TRIP.
MY GRANDSON NATE CAME WITH ME AND GOT SAMMY SOSA'S AUTOGRAPH.
GREAT NEW STADIUM...HOPE YOU CAN SEE IT SOMEDAY. MILLER BEER, $5.00 A BOTTLE....BRATS, $3.50 AND BIG HAMBURGERS, $5.50. OUR $32.00 SEATS WERE GOOD. NOT CHEAP TO ATTEND A MAJOR LEAGUE GAME THESE DAYS. WEATHER WAS GOOD..AND IT WAS A FUN DAY.
I HAVE ANOTHER BUS GOING UP MAY 24TH TO SEE THE CARDINALS PLAY THE BREWERS.

JAKE AND JUDY BICKFORD ARE GRANDPARENTS AGAIN..FOR THE 7TH TIME.
A BOY, BORN THIS PAST WEEK IN IOWA CITY TO KEVIN AND JILL ROTH...WHO LIVE IN CORALVILLE.

I'LL POST THIS AND CONTINUE ON.

DENNIS VOY
 

JUST LOST TODAY'S NEARLY FINISHED REPORT AGAIN..
I HAVE A COMPUTER VIRUS...

SO...IF I DON'T GET A COMPLETE SATURDAY REPORT DONE...THAT'S THE REASON.

I'LL POST THIS MESSAGE AND THEN PROCEEDS TO THE SATURDAY REPORT.

DENNIS  

I JUST HAD A LONG REPORT WIPED-OUT WHEN I ACCIDENTALLY HIT A KEY AND IT ALL DISAPPEARED IN A FLASH.

DON'T HAVE TIME TO RE-DO IT...SO WILL GIVE IT A WHIRL TOMORROW.

SOMETIMES I HATE COMPUTERS.

DENNIS VOY  

NO REPORT TODAY  

SOME RAIN OVER THE WEEKEND...AND THIS MORNING..BUT SUNNY SINCE MID-MORNING AND A HIGH OF 69 TODAY.

KMAQ-FM HIT BY LIGHTNING OVER THE WEEKEND...CAUSING A PROBLEM WITH THE ANTENNA AND OFF-THE-AIR WE WENT AROUND 7:30 THIS MORNING...AND STILL OFF. PARTS SHOULD ARRIVE TOMORROW MORNING. HOPEFULLY, IT'LL STAY UNER $1000. AM STATION WAS NOT EFFECTED SO THERE WAS A STATION TO LISTEN TO LOCALLY.

IT WAS PROM WEEKEND IN MAQUOKETA...AND ALL WENT WELL AS FAR AS I KNOW.

SATURDAY NIGHT STOCK CAR RACES WERE RAINED OUT.

MAQUOKETA GIRLS TOOK 2ND PLACE IN THE BIG BEND GOLF TOURNAMENT TODAY AT MONTICELLO. DEWITT TOOK FIRST. MEDALIST FOR TODAY WITH AN 87 WAS BRITTNEY DAVIS OF MAQUOKETA. BROOKE DAVIS, HER SISTER, HAD A 92. VALERIE CRIST SHOT A 102 AND ERIN MANSON, A 104.

KAY MANUEL'S 99 GRAND AM WAS STOLLEN LAST NIGHT AND STILL HAS NOT BEEN RECOVERED.

CITY COUNCIL MEETING TONIGHT....SCHOOL BOARD MEETING TONIGHT...
PARENTS MEETING AT THE HIGH SCHOOL TONIGHT TO DISCUSS BEHAVIOR
AT THE SCHOOL AND DELWOOD SCHOOL BOARD MEETING ALSO TONIGHT....SO...WE SHOULD HAVE SOME NEWS FROM THOSE TOMORROW.

OVER THE WEEKEND...NO BIRTHS OR DEATHS.

JERRY CULBERTSON IS TAKING OVER OPERATION OF THE PURINA STORE ON QUARRY STREET. I BELIEVE HIS SON WILL BE IN THE BUSINESS WITH HIM.
FOR MANY YEARS, IT WAS RUN BY GLEN CARAWAY....THEN DENNIS STANGE AND DENNIS STREETS...THEN RECENTLY BY STREETS ALONE...IF I HAVE ALL MY FACTS STRAIGHT. MORE ON THIS WHEN AVAILABLE.

I HAVE A FULL BUS GOING TO MILWAUKEE TO SEE THE CUBS PLAY THE BREWERS TOMORROW NIGHT. WE LEAVE THE FAIRGROUNDS AT 1 P.M. MY GRANDSON NATE CLASEN WILL BE MY GUEST FOR THE DAY AND EVENING. WON'T BE HOME TIL WEE HOURS OF THE MORNING. NOT SURE IF I WILL GET A REPORT UP HERE BEFORE WE GO TOMORROW, BUT I WILL TRY.

HAVE A GOOD WEEK.

DENNIS VOY



 

HAVE A GOOD WEEKEND!  

PARTLY SUNNY AGAIN...AND WARMER THAN EXPECTED...IN THE 80'S FOR THE 4TH DAY IN A ROW.

TOMORROW IS MY BIRTHDAY....SO IT'LL PROBABLY RAIN. ANYBODY ELSE BORN IN THAT GREAT YEAR OF 1939??

DEWITT HIGH SCHOOL RECEIVED A THREAT .... OF SOMETHING GOING TO HAPPEN...ON APRIL 20TH AND MAY 2ND. NOTHING DID APRIL 20TH...AND YESTERDAY EITHER....BUT HALF OF THE 600 HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS STAYED HOME YESTERDAY...AND PARENTS KEPT HOME 187 OF THE MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENTS TOO. MIDDLE SCHOOL IS ADJACENT TO HIGH SCHOOL. LOCAL POLICE AND SHERIFF'S DEPUTIES SPENT THE DAY AT THE SCHOOLS.

POTTER'S MILL RESTAURANT IN BELLEVUE IS FOR SALE AT A BARGAIN PRICE.
IT COST AN ESTIMATED $700,000 TO RESTORE...AND YOU MIGHT BE ABLE TO GET IT FOR ABOUT ONE-THIRD THAT AND BECOME AN INSTANT CELEBRITY.
YOU'LL GET LOTS OF FREE WRITE-UPS WITH PICTURES IN PAPERS THROUGHOUT THE AREA. AND, YOU MIGHT BE ABLE TO MAKE GOOD MONEY TOO. PLACE HAS BEEN CLOSED FOR A COUPLE YEARS, BUT IT WOULDN'T TAKE MUCH TIME TO GET IT RE-OPENED. CONTACT CITY HALL IF YOU ARE INTERESTED. AKS FOR LORAS.

VANDALS ENTERED THE MAQUOKETA COMMUNITY CENTER OVERNIGHTAND DISCHARGED SOME FIRE EXTINGUISHERS. MESSY. NO LEADS.

TWO VEHICLES WHICH WERE STOLEN IN MAQUOKETA HAVE BEEN RECOVERED.
A VAN OWNED BY BREITBACH'S FLOOR COVERING WAS FOUND THIS MORNING IN A PARKING LOT OUT BY PACIFIC FEATHER. AND JODI CAMPBELL ON NORTH WALNUT REPORTED HER SON'S MOPED WAS TAKEN WEDNESDAY EVENING AND LOCATED AGAIN IN THE MAQUOKETA PARK APARTMENTS PARKING LOT. NO DAMAGE TO IT.

MELVIN VITTENGEL, AGE 83, OF MESA, AND FORMERLY FROM MAQUOKETA, DIED TODAY IN MESA. HE WORKED FOR JOE MARTIN AUTO AND ALSO OWNED AN UPHOLSTERY SHOP IN MAQUOKETA BEFORE RETIRING. HE WAS ALSO A MECHANIC FOR MAQUOKETA COMMUNITY SCHOOLS. SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE MAXINE, AND ONE SON, RON, OF DENVER.

THE MAQUOKETA ROTARY CLUB HAD THEIR ANNUAL 'SMARTY PARTY' LAST NIGHT AT THE METHODIST CHURCH...HONORING THE TOP-TWENTY SENIORS.
I WAS THERE AS A ROTARIAN AND HOSTED ROSE DONAVAN OF OTTER CREEK WAY...DAD IS TOM...AND GET THIS. OF THE 20...17 WERE GIRLS.

ROGER SCHURBON OF TYLER, TEXAS, STOPPED IN THE OTHER DAY. FORMER MAQUOKETA RESIDENT...HOME TO VISIT HIS MOTHER. MY AGE, NOW RETIRED.
WAS IN THE AIRFORCE IN TEXAS AND MET HIS WIFE DOWN THERE. THEN, AFTER THE SERVICE STINT, WORKED IN THE OIL BUSINESS IN TEXAS FOR OVER 30 YEARS. ONE OF THEIR KIDS LIVES CLOSE-BY AND THE OTHER ABOUT AN HOUR AWAY IN OKLAHOMA. WAS HOME FOR A FEW DAYS TO VISIT HIS MOTHER, MADELINE, WHO IS 93 AND STILL LIVING IN HER HOME, WITH DAUGHTER HONOR. HE STOPPED IN TO SAY HELLO AND THAT HE CHECKS OUT AND ENJOYS THIS DAILY REPORT....AND DOES SO ALMOST EVERY DAY.
THANKS ROGER.....FOR STOPPING IN. EVER DOWN TYLER WAY, STOP OVER AND SEE ROGER. HE LIKES TEXAS AND IS VERY ACTIVE AS A VOLUNTEER IN HIS LOCAL CHURCH.

JACK GAVIN'S BIRTHDAY IS TOMORROW TOO....HE'S RETIRED...WAS MECHANIC
AT ROTMAN'S FOR MANY YEARS....AND EVERY MORNING WHEN I DRIVE TO WORK AROUND 6:10...I MEET HIM WALKING ON QUARRY STREET. WE HAVE A LOT OF WALKERS IN MAQUOKETA. CARL ROTMAN IS ONE OF THE TOP WALKERS IN THE CITY....BERNICE FRANK ALSO ONE OF THE MOST ACTIVE. TOO BAD FOR YOU GUYS DOWN SOUTH...TOOOOO HOT TO ENJOY A WALK DOWN THERE.
ME...I WOULD LIKE TO WALK...BUT MY SORE FEET SAY NO. ANYONE HAVE THAT PROBLEM?

THAT'S IT FOR TODAY.

DENNIS VOY





 

HIGH TODAY 82...LOTS OF CLOUDS, LITTLE SUNSHINE.

KRIS KOONTZ, AGE 27, OF MAQUOKETA, FACES EIGHT CHARGES AFTER LEADING AUTHORITIES ON A HIGH SPEED CHASE LATE YESTERDAY. THE CHASE STARTED ON ARCADE STREET AND ENDED UP EAST OF SPRINGBROOK WHEN ONE OF TWO PASSENGERS WITH HIM PULLED THE KEYS FROM THE IGNITION AND THREW THEM ON THE FLOOR. THE END OF THE CHASE WAS AROUND 12:30 THIS MORNING AND HE SPENT THE NIGHT IN JAIL, APPEARED IN MAGISTRATE COURT THIS MORNING AND WAS RELEASED AND WILL APPEAR IN COURT AGAIN MAY 8TH.
ONE OF THE 8 CHARGES WAS OPERATING A VEHICLE WHILE INTOXICATED.

THERE WAS A BURGLARY AT B & C LIQUOR STORE OVERNIGHT. SOMEONE FORCED OPEN THE DOOR TO A STORAGE SHED AND TOOK $95 WORTH OF EMPTY BEER AND POP CANS.

BREITBACH'S FLOOR COVERING TRUCK WAS TAKEN FROM BEHIND THE STORE LAST NIGHT. KEYS WERE LEFT IN IT. IT IS STILL MISSING.

SORRY .. BUT MOST OTHER LOCAL NEWS TODAY WAS FROM OUTSIDE OF MAQUOKETA AND AS YOU KNOW, THIS REPORT IS BASICALLY ABOUT MAQUOKETA HAPPENINGS.

THANKS FOR STOPPING BY.

DENNIS VOY

 

ANOTHER HOT DAY...OF 87....BUT COOLER WEATHER COMING FOR THE REST OF THE WEEK...MORE NORMAL TEMPS FOR THIS TIME OF YEAR. HAD A LITTLE RAIN AFTER MIDNIGHT THIS MORNING.

BIG STORY TODAY. ROD MONTANG, MAQUOKETA SCHOOL SUPT. FOR THE PAST 6 YEARS TURNED IN HIS RESIGNATION LAST NIGHT TO THE SCHOOL BOARD.
NO BIG SURPRISE. LAST YEAR HE WAS GIVEN A ONE-YEAR CONTRACT RENEWAL WITH NO RAISE AND THIS YEAR WAS ALSO OFFERED A ONE-YEAR RENEWAL.
HE WAS MAKING IN THE MID-60'S AND RUMOR HAS IT, WILL BE PAID AROUND 90 AT HIS NEW DISTRICT, EAGLE GROVE ..NORTH OF AMES...A SMALLER DISTRICT THAN MAQUOKETA...CLOSER TO HIS...AND WIFE'S PARENTS AND CLOSE TO HIS TWO CHILDREN. SO, LOCATION AND MORE MONEY ARE PROBABLY THE TWO REASONS HE'S LEAVING. I HEAR CAMANCHE IS OFFERING 100-THOUSAND FOR A NEW SUPER AND THE ELDRIDGE NORTH SCOTT SUPER WENT TO A NEW JOB THAT IS PAYING HIM AROUND 115. MONTANG HAD SOME PROBLEMS THE LAST COUPLE YEARS HERE, THAT COULD HAVE BEEN HANDLED BETTER. HE MADE A BUDGET MISTAKE THAT CAUSED SOME HEADACHES. THE TWO ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS EQUALIZATION PROBLEM HAS BEEN A THORN AND JUST LATELY, THE MAQUOKETA-DELWOOD CONTRACT HAS BEEN PAINFUL. IN SOME CASES, HIS BOARD HAS NOT BEEN GOOD HELP. ANYWAY, I LIKE ROD AND WISH HIM WELL IN CYCLONE TERRITORY. THE SCHOOL BOARD WILL MEET
MONDAY NIGHT TO ADDRESS THE NEED FOR A NEW SUPER.

THE JCPHOSPITAL HAS TWO NEW EMPLOYEES....DIANE MARSH OF DEWITT IS THE NEW PART-TIME PHARMACIST AND FORMER HOSPITAL EMPLOYEE,JEAN HAYES, HAS RETURNED AS THE NURSE MANAGER. JCPH IS FORTUNATE...NOW...NO FULLTIME NURSE OPENINGS. THE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ANNUAL GOLF OUTING IS JUNE 13TH...AT THE MAQUOKETA COUNTRY CLUB.

BIG POLICE STORY TODAY IN THE NEWS. THE KNOX CONVENIENCE STORE..
FORMER CASEY'S LOCATION...CALLED POLICE TO REPORT A SHOPLIFTER.
TAKEN...A CANDY BAR. WE ARE ALL TO BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR A WHITE MALE, WEARING A BLUE T-SHIRT AND LIGHT BLUE JEANS SHORTS.

BY THE WAY, WE NOW LONGER HAVE A CASEYS STORE. HEARD THEY WERE LOOKING FOR A NEW LOCATION HERE IN MAQUOKETA. IT IS A POPULAR
STATE-WIDE CONVENIENCE CHAIN....WITH ONE IN DELMAR, WYOMING, AND
TWO IN DEWITT.

NO BIRTHS OR DEATHS..

LET'S CALL IT A DAY.

EVERYBODY HAPPY??

DENNIS VOY





 

WARM TODAY, HIGH OF 86. RAIN IN FORECAST FOR TONIGHT.

HAPPY 40TH ANNIVERSARY TOMORROW TO DICK AND JANE MOELLER OF BALTIMORE.
BOTH FORMER MAQUOKETA RESIDENTS. JANE IS DAUGHTER OF GLEN AND MILDRED WOODS.

HAD A NICE DINNER AND DESSERT PARTY YESTERDAY FOR PAT WEIRUP...HONORING HER FOR 25 YEARS OF FRONT-OFFICE SERVICE AT KMAQ.
AND, SHE CONTINUES ON, THANK GOODNESS. SHE REPLACED MARILYN RANKIN AT KMAQ BACK IN THE 70'S. DOES OUR LOG WORK AND BILLING...ANSWERING THE PHONES...DOING SOME AIRWORK FOR OUR PEOPLES EXCHANGE PROGRAM, AND MORE. HUSBAND VERNON IS RETIRED AND KEEPS THE HOME, LAWN AND GARDEN JUST WEST OF MAQUOKETA...IN ORDER. SON RANDY AND FAMILY MOVED BACK TO AREA LAST YEAR AFTER HE RETIRED FROM THE US ARMY. DAUGHTER BARB AND HER TWO GRANDDAUGHTERS LIVE JUST NORTH OF DAVENPORT AND DAUGTHER BRENDA AND HUSBAND LIVE WAY OUT IN THE STATE OF WASHINGTON. HER MOTHER, CAMILLA BOCK, STILL LIVES IN HER HOME HERE IN TOWN AND WAS ALSO A GUEST AT THE EVENT YESTERDAY. ALSO A GUEST YESTERDAY, DOROTHY MORRIS, LONGTIME RETIRED BOOKKEEPER AT KMAQ AND WIFE OF MAURIE...AND THEY STILL ENJOY LOTS OF GOLF IN RETIREMENT. AND WITH US TOO WAS EARL AND EVA SAUNDERS. EARL RETIRED FROM KMAQ 15 YEARS AGO AS A SALES REP AND CONTINUES TO ENJOY RETIREMENT WITH HIS WIFE.
ANYWAY...IN SUMMARY...WE HAD A FUN DAY HONORING A LONG, FAITHFUL AND FUN EMPLOYEE, PAT. THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES PAT.

MICHAEL EHRLER, AGE 43, OF MAQUOKETA, WAS KILLED IN A MOTORCYCLE ACCIDENT EARLY SATURDAY MORNING JUST OVER A MILE NORTH OF DELMAR ON 252ND AVENUE. HE WENT OFF THE ROAD, LOST CONTROL, HIT A MAILBOX AND DIED AT THE SCENE. $15,000 DAMAGE TO HIS 95 HARLEY. HE IS SURVIVED BY 2 DAUGHTERS, BOTH IN ANDREW AND HIS MOTHER, BETTY BAXTER OF MAQUOKETA. ALSO THREE SISTERS IN MAQUOKETA...LAURA PUCKETT, SUE HANSEN AND TOMI TRENTZ. HE WAS A BARGE CAPTAIN IN KENTUCKY FOR 27 YEARS.

THE MAQUOKETA CITY COUNCIL AND MAQUOKETA SCHOOL BOARD BOTH MEET TONIGHT.

OSCAR TRIMBLE, AGE 88, OF DAVENPORT DIED FRIDAY. DON'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT HIM, ..NO LOCAL SURVIVORS, BUT HIS OBITUARY SAYS HE WAS A 50-PLUS YEARS MEMBER OF OUR LOCAL AMERICAN LEGION.

THE NEW GENERAC PLANT IS COMING ALONG NICELY SOUTH OF TOWN. THE GRADING IS BEING DONE NOW FOR LAWN AND PARKING. THE OFFICE....
BUILT ADJACENT TO THE BIG MAIN BUILDING...HAS A STONE BOTTOM AND
COPPER SIDING OR WHATEVER, ALONG THE TOP PORTION OR BUILDING. VERY SHARP LOOKING.

THANKS FOR THE VISIT.

DENNIS VOY






 

NICE DAY TODAY, HIGH OF 75.

HAD A GOOD TIME IN ST. LOUIS WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY. SAW THE CARDINALS WIN WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND WATCHED 9-INNINGS OF THE GAME YESTERDAY AFTERNOON, THEN HEADED HOME AND LISTENED ON THE RADIO UNTIL THE 15TH INNING, WHEN THE CARDINALS LOST. DIDN'T SEE MARK MCGUIRE.
THEY DON'T EXPECT HIM TO BE BACK UNTIL ABOUT JULY 1ST. THE CARDINALS ARE NOT DOING WELL NOW, BUT THEY'LL GET BETTER SOON.

NOT MUCH NEWS TO REPORT. THE HOSPITAL BOARD MET THIS WEEK AND HEARD A REQUEST FROM THE LOCAL DOCTORS THAT THE HOSPITAL HIRE ADDITIONAL PHYSICIANS TO COVER HOLIDAYS AT THE HOSPITAL EMERGENY ROOM. THIS WOULD BE IN ADDITION TO THE CURRENT CONTRACT THAT HIRES EMERGENCY ROOM PHYSICIANS TO WORK FROM FRIDAY NIGHT UNTIL MONDAY MORNING, SO THAT LOCAL PHYSICIANS DON'T HAVE TO WORK. THEY ALSO REQUESTED THAT THE HOSPITAL BOARD HIRE WEEKEDAY EVENING PHYSICIANS ALSO. SO, GUESS WHAT THAT MEANS, IS THAT THEY ONLY WANT T0 WORK AT THE HOSPITAL BETWEEN 9 TO 5, MONDAY THRU FRIDAY. WELL, THE BOARD AGREED TO HIRE PHYSICIANS FOR THE 9 HOLIDAYS, AT A COST OF OVER $20,000 AND DECLINED THE EVENING REQUEST UNTIL MORE MONEY IS AVAILABLE. I DON'T KNOW WHERE THE HIRED HANDS COME FROM, BUT ASSUME MOST ARE FROM THE BIGGER TOWNS AROUND....DOCTORS THAT APPARENTLY ARE WILLING TO DRIVE TO MAQUOKETA TO MAKE SOME PRETTY GOOD EXTRA MONEY.

FLORENCE L. BOCK, AGE 92, OF MAQUOKETA, AND FORMERLY OF ELWOOD, DIED YESTERDAY AFTERNOON AT THE MAQUOKETA CARE CENTER. SHE AND HER LATE HUSBAND, HARRY BOCK, FARMED FOR MANY YEARS IN THE ELWOOD AREA. NO MAQUOKTA SURVIVORS.

HAVE A GOOD WEEKEND.

DENNIS VOY  

GREAT WEATHER TODAY THRU THE WEEKEND FORECAST FOR MAQUOKETA AREA.

CHECK THIS WEB SITE FOR 24 NEW COLOR PICTURES TAKEN LAST WEEK AT MY 61 DRIVE-IN THEATRE .. TAKEN BY EVIL SAM .. COMPLETE WITH STORY.

www.driveinpictureshow.com/pictureshow

LEAVING IN A FEW MINUTES FOR ST. LOUIS.

DENNIS VOY  

A BEAUTIFUL DAY IN MAQUOKETA.

THANKS TO A GENEROUS CONTRIBUTION FROM THE MAQUOKETA ATHLETIC BOOSTER CLUB, THE MAQUOKETA HIGH SCHOOL SOFTBALL FIELD WILL GET NEW LIGHTS THIS SUMMER. LAST NIGHT, BOOSTER MEMBERS STEVE MOORE AND DEAN SCHAUF APPEARED BEFORE THE SCHOOL BOARD AND OFFERED $12,500 OF THE CLUB'S MONEY, IF THE SCHOOL BOARD WOULD PAY THE REMAINING ESTIMATED $15,000 FOR THE LIGHTING PROJECT. THE SCHOOL BOARD HAD THE PROJECT IN THE BUDGET, BUT THEN DECIDED A NEW SCHOOL BUS WAS NEEDED INSTEAD OF THE LIGHTING. SAYING IT WAS TOO GOOD AN OFFER TO PASS UP, THE BOARD VOTED TO COMMIT THEIR PORTION OF THE FUNDS. THE LIGHTS WILL COME FROM MUSCO LIGHTING AT A COST OF $23,410, PLUS $3,500 FOR INSTALLATION, BRINGING THE TOTAL PACKAGE TO $27,000.
ALSO AT THE MEETING LAST NIGHT: THE BOARD SET TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 6TH, AS THE DATE FOR A THIRD LOCAL OPTION SALES TAX VOTE FOR JACKSON COUNTY. IF PASSED, IT WOULD BE IMPLEMENTED JULY 1, 2002 AND THE MONEY COULD ONLY BE USED FOR BUILDING NEEDS OF THE DISTRICT , NEW OR UPKEEP. ALSO LAST NIGHT, THE BOARD ACCEPTED THE RESIGNATION AT THE END OF THIS SCHOOL YEAR OF CARDINAL ELEMENTARY TEACHER JAN MUNDT, WHO WILL TEACH SOME COLLEGE COURSES THIS FALL AT MT. ST. CLARE COLLEGE IN CLINTON. ALSO, THE BOARD ACCEPTED THE RESIGNATION OF BRIGGS ELEMENTARY TEACHER KARA SCHMADEKE, EFFECTIVE AT THE END OF THE SCHOOL YEAR. SHE WILL TEACH AT COE COLLEGE NEXT FALL.

THE AREA RECREATION CENTER, THE ARC, HAS RECEIVED $450,000 IN PLEDGES TOWARD THE NEW $6-MILLION-FACILITY. LONG, LONG WAY TO GO.
FOR A COUPLE REASONS, I WILL NOT BE PLEDGING, BUT KMAQ (WITH MY APPROVAL) IS RUNNING PUBLIC SERVICE SPOTS URGING LISTENERS TO PLEDGE....THE LATEST SPOT TAPED LAST WEEK BY SAGE ROSENFELS.

I'LL BE IN ST. LOUIS TOMORROW AND THURSDAY (WATCHING THE CARDINALS WIN A COUPLE GAMES)....SO MY NEXT DAILY REPORT WON'T BE UNTIL SATURDAY...OR MAYBE FRIDAY.

COME BACK LATER IN WEEK.

DENNIS VOY







 

WARM OVERNIGHT....WARM THIS MORNING...68 AT 11 A.M...THEN WINDY AND COLD(TEMPERATURES DROPPED) THIS AFTERNOON...45 AT 4 THIS AFTERNOON...WIERD DAY. LITTLE SUNSHINE. SOME RAIN YESTERDAY MORNING AND A LIGHT SHOWER AROUND 3 THIS MORNING.

NO PROBLEMS WITH FLOODING IN JACKSON COUNTY....BELLEVUE, GREEN ISLAND AND SABULA....PEOPLE HAVE HAD LOTS OF TIME TO PREPARE AND BUDDY OLSON, JACKSON COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT COORDINATOR SAID OVERALL
THERE HAVE BEEN NO MAJOR PROBLEMS. BUDDY TOLD KMAQ THAT PEOPLE HAVE PLANNED AHEAD AND DIKES AND SANDBAGS HAVE BEEN BUILT. I WENT DOWN TO
DAVENPORT YESTERDAY AFTERNOON TO SEE THE FLOOD.....LOTS OF LOOKERS LIKE ME. GOT MY SHOES WET WITH MISSISSIPPI FLOOD WATER.

WENT TO THE MAQUOKETA FFA ANNUAL BANQUET LAST NIGHT. GOOD IOWA CHOP DINNER SERVED BY JERRY NELSON AND STAFF..THEN NEARLY 2-HOUR PROGRAM.
WE HAVE A VERY, VERY GOOD FFA CHAPTER AT MCHS...WITH ABOUT 150 MEMBERS. AND, THE ALUMNI IS THE BEST IN THE STATE AND HAS BEEN...FOR YEARS.

HERBERT J. WEIS, AGE 81, OF MAQUOKETA DIED SATURDAY AT HIS HOME.
SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE, GERTRUDE...2 DAUGHTERS AND 2 SONS.

KARL VOHRINGER, AGE 73, DIED SUNDAY AT THE LOCAL HOSPITAL AFTER A SUDDEN ILLNESS. HE HAD A BIG AUTO SALVAGE BUSINESS FOR MANY YEARS.
SURVIVED BY 5 SONS, DENNIS VOHRINGER OF DELMAR, KARL JR OF DEWITT, KRIS VOHRINGER OF MAQUOKETA, TOM SANDBERG OF MANCHESTER, AND DAVID SANDBERG OF MISSOURI. ALSO, 5 DAUGHTERS, INCLUDING 3 IN MAQUOKTA, CARLA, CINDY AND KANDY. SHARON LIVES IN CALAMUS AND CATHIE IN BETTENDORF.

LELA KALOUSE, AGE 91, OF MAQUOKETA, DIED THIS MORNING AT MAQUOKETA CARE CENTER. SHE IS SURVIVED BY MANY NIECES AND NEPHEWS.

SAGE ROSENFELS WAS DRAFTED BY WASHINGTON AND IS PLEASED...DRAFTED IN THE 4TH ROUND.

SCHOOL BOARD MEETING TONIGHT.

ALL FOR NOW.

CHECK THE MANY ENTRIES ON OLD SCHOOL HOUSES ON KMAQ GUEST BOOK.

DENNIS VOY



 

WINDY AND WARM TODAY, HIGH 77.

NOTHING YET ON NFL DRAFT....OF SAGE ROSENFELS. AS EXPECTED, TOMORROW WILL BE THE DAY.

THE OPTIMIST CLUB IS HAVING A VINTAGE CAR SHOW OVER THE WEEKEND, AS A FUND-RAISER. TODAY AND TOMMORROW AT THE FAIRGROUNDS.

THE MAQUOKETA HIGH SCHOOL GIRL'S TENNIS TEAM HAS HAD A BUSY WEEK, PLAYING IN 3 EVENTS. MONDAY THEY PLAYED AT DUBUQUE HEMPSTEAD AND DEFEATED HEMPSTEAD'S JV TEAM, 7 TO 2. THEY PLAYED IN WINDY AND SNOWY CONDITIONS. WEDNESDAY, AT WESTERN DUBUQUE, THE CARDINAL WOMEN PLAYED AT THUNDER HILLS AND WON 9 TO 0. AND TODAY, THE GALS PARTICIPATED IN THE CLINTON INVITATIONAL, PLAYING IN THE BEAUTIFUL,WARM SUNNY WEATHER....BUT ONCE AGAIN..PLAYING IN WIND. MOST OF THE TEAMS WERE 2-A TEAMS FORM THE LARGE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY CONFERENCE. CLINTON,THE HOST, TOOK FIRST. MAQUOKETA FINISHED 10TH IN THE 10-TEAM FIELD, THAT INCLUDED THREE DAVENPORT HIGH SCHOOLS, PLEASANT VALLEY, NORTH SCOTT, BURLINGTON AND BETTENDORF. COACH CINDY WIESE SAYS EVERYONE IMPROVED ON SOME ASPECT OF THEIR PLAY TODAY AND SHE SAID SHE WAS PROUD OF ALL THE PLAYERS. THE TENNIS PLAYERS FOR MAQUOKETA ARE IVY WENDEL, BRITTNAY SHIREMAN, NIKKI FLYNN, JENNIFER LANHAM, JENNI LANSING, AND JOANNA THIEDE.

TOM PEIFFER OF MAQUOKETA WAS THE IOWA LOTTERY'S BIGGEST LOTTO WINNER IN JACKSON COUNTY DURING THE LATEST QUARTER...WINNING $5,000 IN THE POWERBALL GAME.

IT WILL BE A NICE NICE FOR STOCK CAR RACING IN MAQUOKETA TONIGHT.

LAST NIGHT..ALL WENT WELL FOR THE OPENING NIGHT OF THE SEASON AT THE 61 DRIVE-IN THEATRE. NEARLY 200 PEOPLE .. AND MOST WERE ABLE TO SIT OUTSIDE THE CAR DURING ENTIRE MOVIE AS IT WAS THAT NICE OUT.

HAVE A GOOD SUNDAY AND A GREAT NEW WEEK.

I AND LEIGHTON HEPKER WILL BE THE GUEST OF THE ST. LOUIS CARDINALS WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY....2001 MEDIA DAYS FOR STATIONS THAT BROADCAST CARDINAL GAMES. LOOKING FORWARD TO MEETING SOME CARDINALS AND SEEING TWO GAMES.

CHECK THE KMAQ GUEST BOOK RIGHT NOW FOR SEVERAL NEW, GOOD ENTRIES.
THANKS TO EVERYONE THAT ENTERS ITEMS ON THE GUEST BOOK.

DENNIS VOY


 

84 FOR A HIGH TODAY...A NEW RECORD, BREAKING THE OLD RECORD OF 83 SET IN MAQUOKETA 16 YEARS AGO IN 1985.

SANDBAGGING CONTINUES ON THE MISSISSIPPI. FOUR ROADS AROUND SABULA WERE CLOSED TODAY. ONLY RESIDENTS, WORKERS AND GUESTS OF RESIDENTS ARE ALLOWED ON THE ISLAND CITY.

EDIN VALLEY CAMPGROUNDS AND NATURE CENTER SOUTH OF BALDWIN OPENS FOR THE SEASON TOMORROW WITH SPECIAL ACTIVITIES.

MILLROCK SCHOOL, SOUTH OF BALDWIN, THAT IS RESTORED AND FURNISHED LIKE AN OLD ONE-ROOM SCHOOL OF YEARS AGO....WILL BE OPEN TO THE PUBLIC TOMMORROW. IT IS REALLY A NEAT SCHOOL, OPERATED BY THE JACKSON COUNTY CONSERVATION BOARD.

I NEVER DID ATTEND A ONE-ROOM SCHOOL. DID ANYONE OF YOU ATTEND ONE?
LET US KNOW ABOUT IT ON THE KMAQ GUEST BOOK.

A MAQUOKETA BOY RECEIVED MINOR INJURIES AFTER HE RODE HIS BIKE INTO THE SIDE OF A CAR ON PERSHING ROAD LAST NIGHT. JOE TAYLOR, AGE 9, WAS TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL BY HIS MOTHER. HE RAN INTO A TRUCK OPERATED BY AN ANAMOSA MAN. $ 1,000 DAMAGE TO TRUCK AND $100 DAMAGE TO BIKE.

THE 61 DRIVE-IN THEATRE OPENS TONIGHT FOR THE SEASON. GOOD WEATHER FOR THE OPENING SHOW, "CAST AWAY".

THE NFL DRAFT IS TOMORROW AND SUNDAY. WATCH THE SPORTS NETWORKS ON TV TO FIND OUT WHO AND WHAT ROUND MAQUOKETA'S SAGE ROSENFELS IS DRAFTED.

HAVE A NICE WEEKEND.

DENNIS VOY  

SUNNY THIS MORNING, MOSTLY CLOUDY THIS AFTERNOON...WE ARE IN THE MID 60'S AND IT IS BREEZY.

HAS BEEN A NICE DAY, SO FAR, AT THE KMAQ HEALTH AWARENESS FAIR AND IT CONTINUES UNTIL 8 TONIGHT. PEOPLE ARE EATING LOTS OF BISON BURGERS.

DON AND PHYLISS NISSEN, OF RURAL MAQUOKETA, WILL OBSERVE THEIR 50TH WEDDING ANNIVERSARY THIS SUNDAY, APRIL 22ND. DON WAS A LONGTIME
INSURANCE MAN IN MAQUOKETA, IN PARTNERSHIP WITH BOB CAVEN, AND HIS SON, CHRIS NISSEN TOOK OVER THE BUSINESS QUITE A FEW YEARS AGO.
IT IS LOCATED ON WEST PLATT, A SHORT DISTANCE FROM MAIN STREET.

ANOTHER MAILBOX AT RURAL PRESTON VANDALIZED LAST NIGHT.

MYRNA ANDERSON, AGE 47, DIED TODAY AT HER HOME. SHE WAS A DIETARY CLERK AT THE LOCAL HOSPITAL AND A HOME HEALTH AID FOR AUXI HEALTH CARE IN DEWITT. LOCALLY, SHE IS SURVIVED BY HER HUSBAND, TERRY, A DAUGHTER, TRISHA DELONG OF MAQUOKETA AND A SON, RICHARD GREEN,II...AT CLINTON....ALSO 3 BROTHERS, INCLUDING JOHN MANNING OF MAQUOKETA.

BUSY.....HAVE TO DO BINGO AND THEN HEAD ON OUT TO THE HEALTH FAIR AT THE FAIRGROUNDS.

CHECK BACK TOMORROW.

DENNIS VOY





 

SUNNY AND WARMER TODAY..HIGH OF 58.

TOMORROW, SUNNY AND POSSIBLITY OF 70 OR MORE FOR A HIGH.

THE FLOODING MISSISSIPPI RIVER IS THE BIG NEWS THESE DAYS.
MOST EXPECT THE FLOOD STAGE TO BE WORSE THAN 1993 BUT NOT AS BAD AS 1965.

THE SAVANNA-SABULA BRIDGE OVER THE MISSISSIPPI WILL BE CLOSED AT 7 TONIGHT BECAUSE OF THE HIGH WATERS THERE.

MAQUOKETA AND DELWOOD SCHOOL BOARDS HAVE ANOTHER JOINT MEETING TONIGHT TO DISCUSS FURTHER THEIR SHARING AGREEMENT FOR 7TH THRU 12 GRADE DELWOOD STUDENTS ATTENDING MCHS.

HAPPY JOE'S PIZZA PLACE WAS BROKEN INTO LAST NIGHT. THE POLICE ARE NOT SAYING HOW MUCH MONEY WAS TAKEN. ENTRY WAS THROUGH THE FRONT DOOR. THE SAFE WAS TAKEN FROM THE OFFICE AND THE CHANGE MACHINE IN THE GAME ROOM WAS OPENED AND CHANGE WAS TAKEN.

A CLINTON WOMAN MONDAY NIGHT ON HIWAY 136 SWERVED HER CAR TO MISS HITTING A GROUP...THAT'S RIGHT..A GROUP OF DEER ON THE HIGHWAY.
$3,000 DAMAGE TO HER CAR THAT OVERTURNED. SHE WAS NOT HURT.

THANKS FOR STOPPING BY.

DENNIS VOY  

SUNNY AND WARMER, BUT STILL COLD FOR THIS TIME OF YEAR.

PACIFIC COAST FEATHER COMPANY IS PLANNING A MAJOR EXPANSION IN MAQUOKETA. THEY PLAN TO JOIN THEIR MANUFACTURING BUILDING (ONE OF TWO MANUFACTURING BUILDINGS) ON MAPLE STREET WITH THEIR WAREHOUSE ON EAST SUMMIT STREET...ADDING OVER 100,000 SQUARE FEET. IT WILL BRING THEIR TOTAL WAREHOUSING SPACE TO ABOUT 1/2 MILLION SQUARE FEET.
THAT'S A LOT OF PILLOWS AND COMFORTERS.

THE FORMER GOLDEN SUN BUILDING ON PERSHING ROAD IS BEING TAKEN OVER BY EUROTECH...AND IT WILL MANUFACTURE EQUINE (HORSE) FEED. THEY WILL PAINT THE ORANGE BUILDING WHITE AND EMPLOY 10 PEOPLE.

A DUBUQUE FAMILY WILL BE MOVING TO MAQUOKETA TO OPEN A KIRBY VACUMN
DEALERSHIP ON EAST PLATT IN MAQUOKETA, CLOSE TO DOWNTOWN.

SMILEYS' SANDWICH SHOPPE & GIFT GALLERY ON NORTH MAIN STREET WILL BE OPEN FOR BUSINESS IN MID-MAY, OWNED AND OPERATED BY ED AND VICKY FRENCH OF MAQUOKETA. CAN'T WAIT. RUMOR HAS IT THEY'LL BE SANDWICHS LIKE MAQUOKETA HAS NEVER TASTED BEFORE.

SOMEONE IS ALSO LOOKING AT MAQUOKETA FOR A NEW LADIES APPAREL STORE.
WE NEED ONE.

DAVE MOREHEAD OF THREE HILLS RODEO OF MAQUOKETA WAS FINED $1,650 ON CHARGES OF FRADULENT PRACTICE IN THE 5TH DEGREE FOR HAVING NO VET CERTIFICATES FOR RODEO ANIMALS IN FEBRUARY.

A BOY, BORN YESTERDAY, TO DANA AND DEB COCHRAN OF MAQUOKETA. GRANDPARENTS ARE RICH AND IRLENE STIMMEL OF MAQUOKETA.

RUTH PETERSON, 77, OF MAQUOKETA, DIED SUNDAY AT THE LOCAL HOSPITAL.
SHE AND HER LATE HUSBAND RAN AN ABSTRACT COMPANY IN MAQUOKETA FOR A FEW YEARS. SURVIVED BY 3 SONS AND 3 DAUGHTERS.

AND THAT WILL HAVE TO DO IT FOR TODAY. IT IS TIME FOR ME TO CALL RADIO BINGO.

DENNIS VOY


 

WINDY AND COLD TODAY...A LITTLE SNOW THIS MORNING.

FLOODING ALONG THE MISSISSIPPI WILL BE A PROBLEM THIS YEAR AGAIN.
THE GOVERNOR THIS AFTERNOON ISSUED A PROCLAMATION OF DISASTER FOR THE 10 COUNTIES IN IOWA ALONG THE MIGHTY MISSISSIPPI. THIS PUTS THE STATE IN A POSITION TO PROVIDE ASSISTANCE TO THOSE COMMUNITIES THAT MAY BE AFFECTED BY FLOODING. SABULA CITY OFFICIALS HAVE ALREADY MANDATED THAT ALL SUMP PUMPS IN THE CITY BE DISCONNECTED FROM THE SANITARY SEWER SYSTEM AS THE CITY'S LIFT STATION CAN'T HANDLE THE EXTRA LOAD FROM CITIZEN SUMP PUMPS. AT BELLEVUE, SOME LOW LYING CAMPING AREAS HAVE BEEN CLOSED.

THE MAQUOKETA CITY COUNICIL MEETS TONIGHT. A CLINTON ENGINES PROPOSAL IS ON THE AGENDA.

OVER THE WEEKEND, RITA BLIZEK OF MAQUOKETA REPORTED SOMEONE BROKE INTO HER VEHICLE AND TOOK A CELL PHONE.

TWO VEHICLE COLLIDED ON THE CAVES ROAD NEAR HIGHWAY 61 SATURDAY.
MINOR INJURIES. PETE HANSEN OF MAQUOKETA WAS HIT FROM THE REAR BY A CAR DRIVEN BY A LONG GROVE RESIDENT. HANSEN, HIS WIFE VERONICA, AND JOHN AND MARY WEETS WERE ALL IN HIS CAR AND ALL FOUR WERE TAKEN TO THE LOCAL HOSPITAL AND TREATED FOR NECK INJURIES.

LON BARTON, AGE 40, OF MAQUOKETA, WAS CHARGED WITH ASSAULT AND CRIMINAL MISCHIEF IN THE 5TH DEGREE. LAST NIGHT, MAQUOKETA POLICE WERE CALLED TO THE KEY MOTEL, NOW AN APARTMENT BUILDING, WHERE BARTON HAD BROKEN A WINDOW AND CUT HIS HAND. HE WIPED THE BLOOD ON THE FACE OF THE MANAGER, LORI SNODGRASS. SHE SAID HE PUSHED HER CHIN UP SO HARD, IT BROKE A TOOTH.

ALAN CLARY, AGE 38, OF MAQUOKETA WAS SENTENCED TO 7 DAYS IN JAIL, SUSPENDED AND FINED $250 ON CHARGES OF A CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE, MARIJUAN. HE WAS ARRESTED BACK IN DECEMBER AFTER HE APPARENTLY FELL FROM HIS BIKE AND OFFICERS FOUND MARIJUANA ON HIM.

A BOY, BORN FRIDAY, TO MARTY AND KIM CLARKK OF MAQUOKETKA...AT THE LOCAL HOSPITAL.

MARY LUCKEY OF BELLEVUE DIED SATURDAY AT HER HOME IN BELLEVUE. FUNERAL ARRANGEMENTS PENDING AT CARSON'S IN MAQUOKETA.

WILMA FRANCIS, AGE 86, OF MAQUOKETA DIED YESTERDAY AFTERNOON AT THE LOCAL HOSPITAL. SERVICES PENDING AT CARSON'S.

LOWEL KEHN, AGE 85, OF THE VETS HOME IN MARSHALLTOWN AND FORMERLY OF DELMAR, DIED YESTERDAY MORNING. SERVES WILL BE THURSDAY AT CARSON'S, WITH REV. CLAIRE O'DELL OF THE METHODIST CHURCH OF MAQUOKETA, OFFICIATING. SURVIVORS INCLUDE 2 BROTHERS, IN CLINTON AND DAVENPORT AND NEICES AND NEPHEWS.

IT IS NOW SNOWING AND BLOWING AGAIN.

THE DECKER IS GETTING A NEW ICE MACHINE TODAY FROM DERGANZ REFRIGERATION. YOU GET ALL THE NEWS HERE ON THIS REPORT.
DECKER SERVED 250 FOR BRUNCH YESTERDAY AND I HEARD ALSO THAT IT WAS A FULL-HOUSE NEARLY, FOR BOTH SITTINGS AT THE MAQUOKETA COUNTRY CLUB YESTERDAY.

BIT OF HISTORY. DR. JORDAN, LONGTIME MAQUOKETA DOCTOR AND SURGEON, PERFORMED HIS FIRST SURGERY ON LITTLE 3-YEAR-OLD ASHER SCHROEDER...ON THE SCHROEDER KITCHEN TABLE, WITH ASHER'S FATHER ASSISTING.
THIS INTERESTING STORY CAME AT LUNCH TODAY, FOR HISTORICAL SOCIETY VOLUNTEERS, RIGHT FROM ASHER. LUNCH AT THE DEPOT. YESS, YESS, ASHER MADE IT THROUGH THE SURGERY FINE....AND BECAME A BIG-TIME LAWYER. HE'S NOW ON THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY'S BOARD. MAY WILL BE CEMETERY MONTH AT THE MUSEUM. KIND OF A DEAD SUBJECT FOR THE MONTH...RIGHT?

I'M OFF TO CLINTON TONIGHT TO ACCEPT A RED CROSS AWARD. HOPE I DON'T GET STRANDED IN A SNOW STORM.

TWO DINNERS IN ONE DAY. AND AFTER YESTERDAY'S FEAST. GOOD THING I DON'T HAVE A WEIGHT PROBLEM.

PEACE.

DENNIS VOY
 

SUNNY AND WARM TODAY.

MEET ME IN ST.LOUIS....THE MCHS MUSICAL....NEXT WEEKEND IN MAQUOKETA.

THE METHODIST MEN'S BIG SPAGETTI SUPPER IS NEXT FRIDAY THE 20TH.
THEY ARE ADDING AN ELEVATOR AT THE CHURCH TOO.

SOME MAQUOKETA PICTURES AT www.crosscountrytours.freeservers.com

ALL DECORATIONS NEED TO BE REMOVED FROM MT. HOPE CEMETERY BY APRIL 15TH..SO CLEAN-UP CAN BEGIN.

THE MCHS CLASS OF 76 IS PLANNING A RE-UNION..JUNE 30TH. ANY QUESTIONS, E-MAIL CATHY EGLI MILLER AT jenk.miller@juno.com

IOWA TITLE AND GUARANTY IS CELEBRATING 50TH YEAR. ORGANIZED BY MAQUOKETA RETIRED LAWYER J.E. GOODENOW....IT IS NOW RUN BY HIS SON JACK.

CLARA DORSEY OF MAQUOKETA CARE CENTER, CELEBRATED HER 91ST BIRTHDAY YESTERDAY. BEEN MARRIED TO ROBERT SINCE 1927.

GERALDINE COOK,AGE 82, OF MEDINAH, ILLINOIS AND FORMERLY OF MAQUOKETA, DIED YESTERDAY. SERVICES PENDING AT CARSON'S IN MAQUOKETA.

DON'T EAT TOO MUCH HAM TOMORROW.

DENNIS VOY





 

SUNNY, LITTLE WIND..AND AROUND 60 TODAY...NOT BAD. WARMER TOMORROW.
COLD WEATHER COMING BACK NEXT WEEK.

THE MAQUOKETA COMMUNITY SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS THIS WEEK POSTPONED A DECISION ON INSTALLING NEW LIGHTS AT THE HIGH SCHOOL SOFTBALL DIAMOND. BOARD MEMBER DAVE TABOR SUGGESTED THE DISTRICT BUY A BUS INSTEAD, WITH THE FUNDS. THE BUS WILL COST $51,000 AND THE LIGHTS WERE GOING TO COST $30,000. SUPT. RODNEY MONTANG SAID THERE WOULD
BE ENOUGH SURPLUS MONEY IN THE P.P.E.L. FUND TO MAKE UP THE DIFFERENCE TO BUY A NEW BUS. BOARD MEMBERS HOWEVER DID NOT VOTE TO PURCHASE A BUS....AND ALSO POSTPONED THE DECISION ABOUT THE NEW LIGHTBS.

KELLY SCHECKEL, AGE 20, OF MAQUOKETA, WAS FINED IN MAGISTRATE COURT TODAY ON CHARGES OF POSSESSION OF DRUG PARAPHENALIA. MAQUOKETA POLICE STOPPED SCHEKEL'S VEHICLE LAST OCTOBER AND A MARIJUANA PIPE AND ROACH CLIP WERE FOUND IN THE VEHICLE.

THERE IS WORRY AGAIN ABOUT A MISSISSIPPI RIVER FLOOD THIS SPRING.

RALPH KROLICK, AGE 72, OF MAQUOKETA, WAS FOUND DEAD AT HIS HOME ON WEDNESDAY. HE APPAENTLY DIED SEVERAL DAYS SOONER OF A SUDDEN ILLNESS. HE WORKED FOR CONNELL SUPPLY ROOFING AND SIDING COMPANY FOR MANY YEARS...AND ALSO FOR ROCKWELL CLEAN-UP SERVICE. SURVIVORS
INCLUDE TWO SISTERS IN MAQUOKETA, MAXINE GOLLADAY AND DORIS HOFF AND 1 BROTHER IN MAQUOKETA, LELAND KROLICK.

DUBUQUE HAS RECEIVED A $60-MILLION-DOLLAR GRANT FROM A NEW STATE PROGRAM AND WILL USE IT FOR A LARGE DEVELOPMENT ALONG THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER .....ALONG WHERE TO CASINO RIBERBOAT IS LOCATED. IT IS EXPECTED TO BRING MANY, MANY MORE TOURISTS TO THE CITY.

PACIFIC COAST FEATHER COMPANY WILL BE ADDING ANOTHER 100,000 SQUARE FOOT WAREHOUSE IN MAQUOKETA. MORE ON THIS LATER.

HAVE A NICE WEEKEND AND A HAPPY EASTER!

DENNIS VOY


 

WINDY, WINDY, WINDY, WINDY. AND COLD!
38 COUNTIES HAD A TORNADO WATCH LAST NIGHT...NOT JACKSON.
WE GOT A TRACE OF RAIN.

JACKSON COUNTY WILL REMAIN THE LARGEST PART OF A NEW IOWA HOUSE
DISTRICT THAT IS CURRENTLY REPRESENTED BY STATE REPRESENTATIVE BOB
OSTERHAUS OF MAQUOKETA. IT IS CURRENTLY THE 34TH HOUSE DISTRICT, BUT WILL BECOME THE 94TH. STATE LEGISLATORS WERE GIVEN THE RE-APPOINTMENT INFORMATION AT THE STATE HOUSE IN DES MOINES THIS MORNING.
THE 94TH DISTRICT WILL CONTINUE TO BE ALL OF JACKSON COUNTY, PLUS 4 TOWNSHIPS IN DUBUQUE COUNTY AND SIX NEW TOWNSHIPS IN CLINTON COUNTY.
INCUMBENT STATE SENATOR TOM FLYNN WILL HAVE A NEW SENATE DISTRICT FURTHER NORTH AND WILL NO LONGER BE JACKSON COUNTY'S STATE SENATOR.
JACKSON COUNTY WILL BE PART OF SENATE DISTRICT 47 WHICH REACHES INTO CLINTON. THERE IS NO INCUMBANT SENATOR LIVING IN THE NEW 47TH. RE-APPOINTMENT IS DONE EVERY TEN YEARS AFTER THE NEW CENSUS FIGURES ARE RELEASED. AND,MORE NEWS. JACKSON COUNTY WILL BE IN THE FIRST
CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT ALONG WITH CLAYTON, DELEWARE,DUBUQUE, LINN, JONES, CEDAR, CLINTON AND SCOTT COUNTIES. THAT MEANS TWO INCUMBANT CONGRESSMAN,JIM NUSSLE AND JIM LEACH NOW LIVE IN THE SAME DISTRICT.
THEY, IF THEY DECIDE TO RUN AGAIN, WOULD GO AGAINST EACH OTHER.
IOWA MAINTAINS FIVE SEATS IN THE US HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

AN ANONYMOUS PERSON GAVE DEWITT A NEW $89,000 AMBULANCE.

NOTHING MORE TODAY.

DENNIS VOY

 

TWO-TENTHS OF AN INCH OF RAIN EARLY THIS MORNING. REST OF DAY HAS BEEN CLOUDY AND WINDY,WITH A HIGH IN THE MID 60'S AND NOW A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR OUR AREA UNTIL 10 TONIGHT.

AT ROTARY TODAY, THE GUEST SPEAKER WAS SAGE ROSENFELS OF MAQUOKETA.
HE WAS GUEST OF ALLAN TUBBS. HIS WIFE, MARIA, WAS WITH HIM.
SAGE AND MARIA GRADUATED FROM IOWA STATE IN DECEMBER AND ARE EXPECTING A CHILD. HE WAS THE STAR QUARTERBACK LAST SEASON FOR THE IOWA STATE CYCLONES AND SINCE THE BOWL GAME, HAS BEEN CONCENTRATING ON GETTING READY FOR THE NFL PRO PLAYER'S DRAFT LATER THIS MONTH.
HE IS HOPING TO GET DRAFTED EARLY AND BY A CLUB IN THE IMMEDIATE AREA.
IT WOULD SURE BE NICE IF HE WOULD BECOME A PRO PLAYER. CHANCES ARE VERY GOOD.

YOU MISSED A GOOD PANCAKE-SAUSAGE SUPPER AT PYTHIAN HALL LAST NIGHT.
JERRY RASMUSSEN SOLD THE TICKETS. AND DUB ROMER WAS IN CHARGE OF SELLING CHANCES ON EASTER HAMS. OTHERS WORKING HARD INCLUDED ROSS DAVIS, VERNON WEIRUP, ROY FRANDSEN, TED MAZE, BOB WARNER, AND A FEW OTHERS.

SENATOR CHUCK GRASSLEY WAS IN MAQUOKETA MONDAY FOR ABOUT AN HOUR TO MEET THE PUBLIC. DID SO AT THE NEW FARM BUREAU BUILDING DOWNTOWN.

TRACY AND JASON LEHMANN OF COON RAPIDS, MINNESOTA, HAD A BOY MONDAY IN COON RAPIDS. GRANDPARENTS ARE DEB AND RON BURNETT OF MAQUOKETA.

BOB AND DOROTHY JONES ARE CELEBRATING THEIR 60TH WEDDING ANNIVERSARY TODAY. BOB HAS BEEN A VERY ACTIVE BUSINESSMAN FOR MANY, MANY YEARS.
HIS HEALTH ISN'T THE BEST THESE DAYS. HE'S UP AND AROUND,BUT DOROTHY OR SON STEVE NEED TO BE WITH HIM ALL THE TIME. STEVE IS MANAGING SOME OF THE RENTAL PROPERTIES THEY OWN.

MAQUOKETA HAS THEIR BIG ANNUAL TRACK MEET TOMORROW, BUT BECAUSE THEIR TRACK IS IN SUCH BAD SHAPE, IT WILL BE RUN ON THE CAMANCHE TRACK, WITH AROUND 40 MAQUOKETA PEOPLE GOING TO CAMANCHE AS VOLUNEERS TO HELP RUN THE EVENT. I HEAR THE COST FOR A NEW TRACK WILL BE ABOUT A MILLION DOLLARS AND SO I WILL NOT BE SURPRISED IF A BOND ISSUE WILL BE ASKED FOR SOON TO REPLACE THE TRACK, LOCATED JUST SOUTH OF THE HIGH SCHOOL.

WITH THE WIND BLOWING AT 25 TO 30 MPH OUTSIDE...I'M RUNNING OUT OF WIND INSIDE...SO WILL END THIS FOR ANOTHER DAY.

DENNIS VOYU




 

CLOUDY AND 62 FOR A HIGH. LOTS OF RAIN IN FORECAST FOR TONIGHT AND TOMORROW.

THE FIRST STEP WAS TAKEN FOR A MAJOR CHANGE IN MAQUOKETA'S TWO ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS LAST NIGHT. STARTING THIS FALL...ALL KINDERGARDEN KIDS WILL BE GOING TO SCHOOL AT CARDINAL ELEMENTARY AND ALL 3RD GRADE STUDENTS WILL BE ATTENDING SCHOOL AT BRIGGS. THEN NEXT YEAR, THE OTHER CLASSES CHANGE.....AND FROM THEN ON....CARDINAL SCHOOL WILL BE A K-2 SCHOOL AND BRIGGS A 3-5 GRADE SCHOOL.

KAY STEAD, AGE 78, DIED YESTERDAY AT A NURSING HOME IN SCOTTSDALE, ARIZONA. SHE AND HER LATE-HUSBAND VICTOR, LIVED MOST OF THEIR ADULT LIFE IN MAQUOKETA. HE WAS IN THE INSURANCE BUSINESS HERE UNTIL 1993. SURIVORS INCLUDE 3 SONS, JERRE AND JAMIE, BOTH IN SCOTTSDALE AND BRIAN IN PHOENIX. ALSO 6 GRANDCHILDREN AND 4 GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN. SERVICES WILL BE HERE IN MAQUOKETA THURSDAY AND BURIAL WILL BE AT MT. HOPE CEMETERY.

I'M HEADING FOR THE PYTHIAN PANCAKE-SAUSAGE SUPPER TONIGHT AT THE PYTHIAN HALL IN MAQUOKETA.

BE SURE TO CHECK KMAQ'S GUEST BOOK AGAIN.

DENNIS VOY

 

MOSTLY CLOUDY DAY...WITH HIGHS AROUND 60.

CLAY ROMER OF CONNELL SUPPLY COMPANY HAS HIS 2000-MODEL TRUCK BACK.....FOUND OVER THE WEEKEND OUT IN A FIELD NEAR BALDWIN WITH LITTLE DAMAGE. MANY THOUGHT IT WAS A PROFESSIONAL GONE-IN-60-SECONDS JOB...AND THAT HE WOULD NEVER SEE IT AGAIN.

SCHOOL BOARD MEETING TONIGHT! WORD IS, MR. T....JEFF TAMPIER..WILL RESIGN AS WRESTLING COACH...A JOB HE HAS HAD FOR OVER 30 YEARS.

A FATALITY IN JACKSON COUNTY SATURDAY NIGHT. KILLED IN THE ACCIDENT, A MAN FROM RIDGEWAY, WISCONSIN. HE WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD AT THE SCENE. THE 23-YEAR-OLD WAS WALKING ALONG THE ROAD A MILE WEST OF LAMOTTE AND HE WAS HIT BY A CAR DRIVEN BY ART CAPESIUS OF LAMOTTE. THE ACCIDENT IS STILL UNDER INVESTIGATION. ART AND HIS WIFE CAROL WERE TAKEN TO MERCY HOSPITAL IN DUBUQUE AND TREATED AND RELEASED.

STEPHANIE AND JEREMY RIORDAN OF MAQUOKETA HAD A GIRL LAST THURSDAY.
AND CARRIE LICHT AND JADE SALZMANN OF MAQUOKETA HAD A BOY LAST THURSDAY TOO...BOTH BORN AT THE LOCAL HOSPITAL.

ALVIN G. GOEPFERT, AGE 93, OF MAQUOKETA DIED YESTERDAY AT A RESIDENTIAL HOME IN CEDAR RAPIDS..AFTER A LINGERING ILLNESS.
SERVICES WEDNESDAY AT THE FIRST LUTHERAN CHURCH IN MAQUOKETA. HE FARMED IN THE BELLEVUE AND ANDREW AREA FOR MANY YEARS. HE WORKED AT CLINTON ENGINES FROM 1964 TO 1974. HE IS SURVIVED BY 2 DAUGHTERS AND 2 SONS AND 1 BROTHER, ARTHUR IN MAQUOKETA AND A SISTER IN CLINTON.

THANKS FOR YOUR VISIT.

DENNIS VOY



 

MOSTLY CLOUDY, BUT STILL AROUND 60. FOGGY THIS MORNING...AND SCHOOL WAS DELAYED 2-HOURS. THEN, RAIN FOR AWHILE DURING MID-MORNING.

EASTER EGG HUNT...TOMORROW AT 9:30....OUT BY THE FAIRGROUNDS...SPONSORED BY THE MAQUOKETA KIWANIS CLUB.

SMILEY'S SANDWICH SHOPPE....NEW BUSINESS COMING TO MAQUOKETA ON NORTH MAIN STREET,IN THE FORMER BOB'S BARBER SHOP LOCATION. MORE LATER.

LONNIE HART, AGE 86, OF RURAL ONSLOW, FORMERLY OF IRON HILL, DIED YESTERDAY AT HER HOME. SURIVIVORS INCLUDE HER HUSBAND, 1 DAUGHTER AND 3 SONS, INCLUDING GAYLE HART AND RUSSELL HART, BOTH OF MAQUOKETA.

CLAY ROMER'S TRUCK STILL MISSING.

BOB THOMAS IS 60 TODAY. LUTHERAN-BROTHERHOOD REP FOR MAQUOKETA AREA.
WIFE IS KAREN. YEARS AGO, THEY CAME TO MAQUOKETA SO BOB COULD WORK AT BEATY'S BEN FRANKLIN STORE IN MAQUOKETA. HE LATER OWNED BUSINESS AND THEN LATER, CLOSED IT.

JERRY MILLS IS COMING TO MAQUOKETA, THURSDAY, APRIL 19TH, TO SING AT THE JACKSON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY MUSEUM. HE IS AN INTERNATIONALLY ACCLAIMED TEACHER, SONG-WRITER, AND MOTIVATIONAL TRAINER WHO TRAVELS WORLDWIDE SHARING...WHAT THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE DESCRIBES...AS "AN INTENSELY PERSONAL LOOK AT THE CHALLENGES FACED BY YOUTH". HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF TEACHERS, ADMINISTRATORS AND EDUCATIONAL STAFF FROM MICHIGAN TO MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA, HAVE EXPERIENCED THE IMPACT OF HIS LIVE PROGRAMS. HE WILL BE ON STAGE THAT NIGHT FROM 6 TIL 8 P.M. HIS WEB SITE IS www.jerrymills.com
AND HIS MOTHER-IN-LAW IS TONY KRACKE, CURATOR OF THE MUSEUM.

THE IKE'S FISH FRY IS TOMORROW AT CLUBHOUSE SOUTH OF TOWN....THOSE GO BACK 50-75 YEARS. ALSO, A LONGTIME SAUSAGE-PANCAKE EVENT IS PUT ON BY THE PYTHIANS AT THE PYTHIAN HALL ON JONES AVENUE AND IT IS NEXT TUESDAY NIGHT. SOME OF YOU HAVE BEEN TO EITHER OR BOTH.

HAVE A GOOD WEEKEND FRIENDS.

DENNIS VOY




 

CLOUDY THIS MORNING....RAIN MOST OF AFTERNOON.

THE GROUND-BREAKING CEREMONY FOR THE FAMILY DOLLAR DISTRIBUTION CENTER
WENT AS SCHEDULED THIS MORNING, STARTING AT 10:30 AT CITY HALL. THE COUNCIL CHAMBERS WERE NEARLY FULL. THREE TV STATIONS WERE THERE, AND KMAQ AIRED THE EVENT ON BOTH AM AND FM. A MAJOR PROBLEM. THE CEO FOR THE FIRM, DAVID ALEXANDAR, AND HIS PARTY, DIDN'T MAKE IT.
THEIR NEW LEAR JET AT THE LAST MINUTE DEVELOPED A PROBLEM AND THEY HAD TO CANCEL, AS THEY COULD NOT MAKE A SUBSTITUTE CONNECTION. SO, THEY FAXED THEIR SPEECH AND IT WAS READ BY THE CONTRACTOR FOR THE
BUILDING. THE CONTRACTOR SAID THIS SUMMER, THERE WILL BE NEARLY 300 CONTRACTOR PEOPLE WORKING ON THE HUGE BUILDING, WHICH WILL COST AROUND $50-MILLION DOLLARS.

JACK ROSENBERG, MAYOR, ANNOUNCED TODAY THAT HE HAS SOLD THE AUTO PARTS INVENTORY AS WELL AS THE OXYGEN AND ACETELINE BUSINESS TO BARRON MOTORS BASED IN CEDAR RAPIDS. THEY HAVE A STORE ON EAST PLATT IN MAQUOKETA. ROSENBERG SAID THE BUILDING HAS NOT BEEN SOLD BUT THE 9,700 SQUARE-FOOT FACILITY IS FOR SALE OR LEASE.

WARREN KISH, SR., AGE 63, OF MAQUOKETA DIED YESTERDAY AT HIS HOME.
HE IS SURVIVED BY 3 DAUGHTERS, INCLUDING LUANA KISH OF MAQUOKETA AND A SPECIAL FRIEND, MAE KISH OF MAQUOKETA.

LONNIE HART, AGE 86, OF RURAL ONSLOW AND FORMERLY OF THE IRON HILL AREA, DIED THIS MORNING. SERVICES PENDING AT CARSON'S.

THE ST. LOUIS CARDINALS HAVE LOST THEIR FIRST 3 GAMES OF THE YEAR, TO COLORADO, AND BY BIG MARGINS. WE ARE NOT VERY HAPPY ABOUT THIS HERE AROUND THE STATION.

IN FACT, WE'RE MAD!

THAT'S IT FOR TODAY.

THANKS.

DENNIS VOY  

SUNNY, WINDY AND AROUND 60.

BIG DAY TOMORROW....THE GROUNDBREAKING FOR FAMILY DOLLAR'S BIG
DISTRIBUTION CENTER SOUTH OF TOWN. KMAQ WILL BROADCAST THE EVENT
'LIVE' FROM CITY HALL.

TWO NEW HOUSES HAVE BEEN STARTED IN A NEW SUBDIVISION ACROSS THE 4-LANE HIGHWAY FROM HAPPY JOES PIZZA. THE PROPERTY HAS BEEN DEVELOPED BY ALLAN EARLES AND WILL HAVE ROOM FOR MANY HOMES ON BOTH THE EAST AND WEST SIDE OF THE NEW STREET. THAT EXTENSION OF THE FARMLAND DRIVE STREET WAS BUILDT BY THE IOWA DOT AND CONNECTS SUMMITT STREET AND THE SOUTH SUBDIVISION THAT IS RIGHT ACROSS THE ROAD FROM WHAT WAS ONCE THE TRUCK STOP. RUMOR HAS IT EARLES IS BUILDING ONE OF THE HOMES TO RE-SELL AND KEN MOORE IS BUILDING THE OTHER.
EARLES IS THE MAN THAT WON THE LOTTO AMERICA ABOUT 10 YEARS AGO AND SINCE HAS DONE SOME GOOD THINGS FOR MAQUOKETA. THIS DEVELOPMENT IS NEEDED IN MAQUOKETA AND WILL PROBABLY FILL UP PRETTY FAST. HIS FIRST DEVELOPMENT .. A LITTLE FARTHER TO THE EAST ..(TO THE WEST OF THE MAQUOKETA HIGH SCHOOL AND CONNECTED TO GRAMT STREET)HAS QUITE A FEW HOMES IN IT, BUT IT IS NOT SOLD OUT. NEW HOUSING WILL BE NEEDED
WITH THE 900 NEW JOBS OPENING UP IN MAQUOKETA IN THE NEXT 24-MONTHS.

GOT AN E-MAIL YESTERDAY FROM DON PETERSEN, WHO WAS KMAQ'S NEWS DIRECTOR 40 YEARS AGO, IN THE EARLY 60'S. HE LEFT HERE TO BECOME A TV NEWS ANCHOR IN WATERLOO AND THEN ENDED UP WORKING FOR UPI NEWS IN CHICAGO UNTIL RETIREMENT 8 YEARS AGO. WIFE IS ALSO RETIRED FROM TEACHING AND THEY ARE KEPT BUSY VISITING 8 GRANDCHILDREN AND DOING CHURCH AND VOLUNTEER WORK. GOOD HEARING FROM HIM. THE LAST TIME I SAW HIM WAS ABOUT 18 YEARS AGO WHEN HE WAS IN MAQUOKETA FOR KMAQ'S 25TH ANNIVERSARY. THEY HAVE LIVED IN EVANSTON FOR MANY YEARS.

THANKS FOR CHECKING IN AGAIN TODAY. THE MAQUOKETA GOLF COURSE IS OPEN...AND MOST OF THE SNOW IS GONE AROUND HERE.

DENNIS VOY.



 

SPRING DAY TODAY....AROUND 60.

GROUNDBREAKING CEREMONIES ARE PLANNED FOR THIS THURSDAY MORNING
FOR THE FAMILY DOLLAR NEW DISTRIBUTION CENTER IN THE CITY'S NEW
INDUSTRIAL PARK AT THE SOUTH SIDE OF MAQUOKETA.

CITY COUNCIL MEETING TONIGHT.

BIG LIQUIDATION SALE STARTED TODAY ... 25% OFF STOREWIDE ... AT
ROSENBERG AUTO SUPPLY WHICH IS GOING OUT OF BUSINESS.

MAQUOKETA POLICE ARE LOOKING FOR A RUN-AWAY TEEN-AGER FROM
MAQUOKETA. JASON MAYS OF 216 N. OLIVE DID NOT RETURN HOME LAST THURSDAY.

THE CLAY ROMER 2000 TRUCK STILL MISSING.

SEVERAL MORE MAIL BOXES DESTROYED OVER THE WEEKEND.....THOSE BELONGING
TO DAN SMITH, JOHN BLAKE, DAVE REED, AND JAMIE ROSENFELS.

RYAN HANKEMEIER OF RURAL MILES REPORTED HIS VEHICLE WAS TAKEN OVER THE WEEKEND.

THE COTTAGE IN DOWNTOWN MAQUOKETA HAS A NEW HAM SANDWICH ON THE
MENU.

THAT'S IT FOR A MONDAY.

DENNIS VOY  

BEAUTIFUL SUNDAY, SUNNY AND IN MID-40'S.

NOT A LOT OF NEWS.

YESTERDAY, AFTERNOON...I VISITED THE POPULAR DUBUQUE BOAT.
ENOUGH SAID.

LAST NIGHT, NANCY AND I TOOK IN THE ANNUAL JACKSON-CLINTON DAIRY BANQUET AT THE FAIRGROUNDS. BIGGER THAN EXPECTED TURN-OUT. HAD TO STAND IN LINE ABOUT 45-MINUTES BEFORE WE GOT TO THE BUFFET SERVING
LINE. PORK AND BEEF DINNER, WITH ALL THE EXTRAS, INCLUDING, OF COURSE, DAIRY PRODUCTS....CHEESE, COTTAGE CHEESE AND ICE CREAM.
SERVED UP BY THE HOMETOWN CAFE, OWNED AND OPERATED BY STEVE AND SHIRELY RITNOUR IN PRESTON. THEY CATER A LOT OF BIG BANQUET EVENTS AND DO A SUPER JOB. IN FACT, THE DAIRY PROUCERS CALLED STEVE UP AND PRESENTED HIM WITH AN APPRECIATION PLAQUE. THEN, THE NAMED THE NEW DAIRY PRINCESS FOR THE COMING YEAR. SHE IS JUDY WIEDERHOLT, DAUGHTER OF ROGER AND CONNIE OF BERNARD, A JUNIOR A MCHS. THE LITTLE MISS DAIRY MAID IS MARISSA TILL, DAUGHTER OF ALLAN AND KAREN TILL OF MAQUOKETA. AND THE LITTLE SIR DAIRYMAN IS MATTHEW TILL, AND HIS PARENTS ARE ALSO ALLAN AND KAREN. THEN..LOTS OF DOOR PRIZES.
WE WERE NOT A WINNER. MUSIC WAS NEXT BY BROOKE BYAM, OF CLINTON, GRANDDAUGHTER OF RED AND BERNICE HENTON OF MAQUOKETA..AND THE CURRENT MISS CLINTON COUNTY. SHE SANG WITH THE RICK TITTLE BAND OF DUBUQUE.
HER MOM, JUDY AND RED, SANG ONE SONG TOO. GOOD SHOW. SHE WILL BE IN THE MISS IOWA PAGEANT IN JUNE AND THE SONG SHE WILL SING IN THE TALENT PORTION OF SHOW,WILL BE ONE SHE SANG LAST NIGHT, 'UNCHAINED MELODY". SO...NICE NIGHT,BUT LITTLE LONG, AT THE DAIRY EVENT.

THIS AFTERNOON, TOOK IN THE MAQUOKETA ARTS COMMITTEE FINAL EVENT OF THE SEASON, AT THE UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST. A ONE-HOUR CONCERT BY THE AUGUSTANA FACULTY JAZZ TRIO. MUST HAVE BEEN 40 THERE. GOOD JAZZ EVENT...BUT I AM NOT THE BIGGEST FAN OF THAT MUSIC. SAT WITH BOB FOWLER. NANCY HAD TOO MANY THINGS TO DO THIS AFTERNOON AT HOME AND DIDN'T ATTEND. YES..MAQUOKETA IS ALSO A PLACE FOR THE ARTS.

DR. MARK INTLEKOFER'S MOTHER, DIED YESTERDAY, IN MONTICELLO.. AGE 77. SHE HAD 10 CHILDREN.

BRUCE LUETT, AGE 81, OF BALDWIN, DIED FRIDAY. SURVIVORS INCLUDE A
DAUGHTER, MERIDITH BRANDT OF MAQUOKETA.

JACK JONES, WHO IS MANAGER OF MY THEATRES, IS DOING WELL AFTER A SLIGHT HEART ATTACK. HE WAS IN YESTERDAY AND TOLD ME HE GOT THE BILLS YESTERDAY FROM BOTH HOSPITALS. HE WAS FIRST AT THE MAQUOKETA HOSPITAL FOR A COUPLE HOURS, THEN TAKEN BY AMBULANCE TO THE HOSPITAL IN DAVENPORT WHERE THEY DID THE ANGIO-PLASTY (BALLOON) PROCEDURE AND THEN WAS IN HOSPITAL FOR A FEW DAYS. OVER $30,000,OF WHICH $6,000 WAS FOR THE LOCAL HOSPITAL. WONDER WHAT A BYPASS COSTS THESE DAYS?
WHERE WILL MEDICAL BILLS END? KMAQ'S PLAN WENT UP A COUPLE THOUSAND A YEAR AGAIN...AND THE SCHOOL DISTRICT'S WAS RAISED 33%.

LAST NIGHT, RAN INTO JIM AND SHARON BELLER OF MAQUOKETA WHO WERE AT THE DAIRY EVENT WITH RON AND SHIRLEY MILLER OF MESA. JIM IS STILL COMPLAINING ABOUT THE BAD WEATHER HE ENCOUNTERED ON HIS WINTER TRIP TO WHAT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE A BETTER PLACE FOR WEATHER....AND WASN'T.
THE MILLERS ARE HOME FOR THE FUNERAL OF SHIRLEY'S MOTHER AND THEY ARE GOING BACK TO ARIZONA EARLY THIS WEEK. BOTH THE BELLERS AND THE MILLERS LOOKED GOOD...AND IT WAS NICE TO SEE THEM. JIM IS STILL CUTTING SOME HAIR THESE DAYS, I BELIEVE. BUT SHARON IS NO LONGER
GROOMIN' THE DOGS, I BELEIVE. AND THE MILLERS ARE FULLTIME, RETIRED RESIDENTS OF MESA. JIM AND SHARON'S DAUGHTER LIVES IN RENO NOW, AND LIKES IT. SOME MAQUOKETA-AREA PEOPLE ARE HEADING FOR RENO TO THE BOWLING TOURNAMENT THIS COMING WEEKEND, INCLUDING JERRY AND COLLEEN DOTTIERICH OF ZWINGLE-WAY. BOTH FINE BOWLERS.

GOING TO A VILLAGE VOICES CONCERT TONIGHT AT DEWITT. YUP...I'M NOT JUST A MOVIE GOER. BUT,MOVIES ARE BETTER THAN EVER AND HARD TO BEAT.

HAVE A GOOD WEEK BOYS AND GIRLS AND

CHECK BACK TOMORROW.

DENNIS VOY





 

CLOUDY AND 58 TODAY FOR A HIGH.

CLAY ROMER OF CONNELL SUPPLY ROOFING AND SIDING IN MAQUOKETA,REPORTED HIS 2000 WHITE PICKUP STOLEN YESTERDAY AFTERNOON FROM HIS DRIVE-WAY.
IT IS THE 3RD STOLEN VEHICLE THIS MONTH....BUT THE OTHER TWO WERE FOUND SOON AFTER, UNDAMAGED. THIS TRUCK IS STILL MISSING.

SHORT REPORT I KNOW..HAVE TO RUN.

MORE TOMORROW.

HAVE A GOOD WEEKEND.

DENNIS VOY  

NO SUNSHINE,BUT HIGH OF 51.

TEACHERS IN MAQUOKETA WILL RECEIVE OVER $300,000 MORE NEXT SCHOOL YEAR....COSTING THE DISTRICT A 5.8% INCREASE IN THE PAYROLL FOR THE YEAR. THE NEW BASE SALARY WILL BE $22,050. HEALTH INSURANCE COSTS WILL BE UP OVER 34%. FINAL APPROVAL WILL BE GIVEN THE SALARY INCREASES AT THE NEXT MEETING IN APRIL.

THE JACKSON COUNTY HOSPITAL BOARD IS REPLACING THE FLOOR IN THE OPERATING ROOM AREA, AT A COST OF $10,300 AND ALSO IS BUYING A NEW BLOOD GAS ANALYSER, AT A COST OF $5,000. THEIR NEXT MEETING IN APRIL WILL BE IN PRESTON AS THEY ARE PLANNING SOME FUTURE MEETINGS AROUND THE COUNTY. THANKED AT THE MEETING, WANDY CORNELIUS AND JOHN AND EVELYN FAGERLAND FOR DONATING SOME ENTRANCE OUTSIDE BENCHES.

CHANGES AT THE MAQUOKETA AIRPORT. AFTER 25 YEARS, GOODENOW UPHOLSTERY IS MOVING TO THE CLINTON AIRPORT AND BRIAN JENSEN ALSO WILL BE MOVING FROM THE AIRPORT WITH HIS ULTRA-LITE BUSINESS. HE AND GOODENOW HAD BEEN CO-CARETAKERS AT THE AIRPORT. ED CURLEY, THE NEW OWNER OF THE B-CAP AIRPLANE PAINTING BUSINESS NEAR THE AIRPORT, WILL BECOME THE NEW CARETAKER AT THE AIRPORT. THE AIRPORT COMMISSION IS TRYING THEIR BEST TO GENERATE SOME NEW INCOME AT THE AIRPORT AND ALSO SOME NEW INTEREST IN FLYING. THE CHAIRPERSON OF THE COMMISSION IS
SUE SANDBERG (WIFE OF DR. SAM)AND SHE IS DOING A GOOD JOB. I CATCH THEIR MEETINGS ON THE PUBLIC ACCESS TV CHANNEL. DR. SAM WORKS IN DUBUQUE AND THE SANDBERG FAMILY LIVES IN SWAGOSA SUBDIVSION, IN THE FORMER TOM AND ROCHELLE RAY HOME. THE RAYS SEVERAL YEARS AGO SOLD THEIR HOME AND HAVE A LARGE APARTMENT UPSTAIRS OVER THE JEWELRY STORE. TOM, WHO SUFFERED A MAJOR STROKE LAST YEAR, IS LIVING AT HOME ABOVE THE STORE AND ROCHELLE IS RUNNING THE JEWELRY STORE.
SHE CLOSED UP HER LADIES WEAR STORE LAST YEAR AND THAT LOCATION IS NOW A CELLULAR PHONE COMPANY.

JAKE BICKFORD AND CHARLIE DIETZ WENT GOLFING AT THOMSON,ILLINOIS TODAY. THE LOCAL GOLF COURSE IS STILL NOT OPEN. THE NEW COURSE WILL OPEN THIS SUMMER.

WENDY HULINGER'S HOME ON EAST PLATT WAS BURGLARIZED YESTERDAY...ITEMS MISSING TOTAL AROUND $700.

A NEW RESTAURANT FOR MAQUOKETA? MAYBE. AN OUT-OF-TOWN COUPLE HAS BEEN LOOKING AT EMPTY BUILDINGS.

RUHL AND RUHL HAD A CHAMBER OPEN HOUSE OF THEIR NEW REALTOR'S OFFICE ON WEST PLATT IN DOWNTOWN MAQUOKETA LAST NIGHT. THE FIRM IS IN ABOUT 7 CITIES NOW, AND STILL HEADQUARTERED IN DAVENPORT. ITS A 4TH GENERATION FIRM, STARTING UP IN THE 1800'S. THEIR MAQUOKETA LOCATION IS VERY NICE AND IS HEADED UP BY VI YEAGER (MRS. RON) AND STAFF.
MAQUOKETA SHOULD BE HAVING A HOUSING BOOM IN THE NEXT COUPLE YEARS SO I AM SURE VI AND OTHER REALTORS IN MAQUOKETA WILL HAVE SOME GOOD DAYS AHEAD.

THANKS FOR THE VISIT.

DENNIS VOY









 

SUNSHINE FOR AN HOUR EARLY THIS MORNING...THEN CLOUDY THE REST OF THE DAY...AND COOL..HIGH AROUND 40.

JEREMY KEIL, AGE 24, FACES SEVERAL CHARGES AFTER BEING STOPPED FOR
A TRIFFIC VIOLATION YESTERDAY MORNING...3 MILES WEST OF MAQUOKETA.
A SEARCH BY STATE TROOPER JOHN DUDEN RESULTED IN KEIL BEING CHARGED WITH POSSESSION OF MARIJUANA, A CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE. HE WILL APPEAR IN COURT ON APRIL 11TH.

THE MAQUOKETA HIGH SCHOOL BASEBALL FIELD SOUTH OF THE HIGH SCHOOL WILL BE GETTING A NEW TWO-STORY PRESS BOX. IT WILL HAVE A PLACE FOR STORAGE UNDERNEATH THE ACTUAL PRESS BOX. IT IS BEING FINANCED BY THE MAQUOKETA ATHLETIC BOOSTER CLUB AND WILL BE READY BY THE TIME THE SEASON STARTS. MIKE WING WILL CONSTRUCT IT AT A COST ESTIMATED AROUND $6,000.

THE SCHOOL BOARD IS ALSO LOOKING INTO NEW LIGHTS FOR THE SOFTBALL FIELD TO REPLACE THOSE WORN OUT. THAT FIELD IS RIGHT NEARBY THE BASEBALL FIELD.

WE START ST. LOUIS CARDINALS BASEBALL ON KMAQ MONDAY FOR THE 17TH YEAR IN A ROW....THE CARDINALS HAVE BEEN PICKED BY SPORTS ILLUSTRATED TO PLAY THE YANKEES IN THE 2001 WORLD SERIES.

LIGHT RAIN JUST STARTED IN THE TIMBER CITY.

I BETTER GO INSIDE BEFORE I GET SOAKED.

DENNIS VOY  

SUNNY AND IN 40'S TODAY.

AT TODAY'S CHAMBER OF COMMERCE MEETING, LUNCH AT THE COUNTRY CLUB,
THE GUEST SPEAKER WAS THE GUY THAT IS OVER-SEEING THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE GENERAC PLANT SOUTH OF TOWN. NICE GUY. LIVES IN MILWAUKEE AREA AND DRIVES DOWN EVERY WEEK. ALL IS GOING WELL WITH CONSTRUCTION. THE FINISHED THE FLOOR OF THE MAIN PLANT YESTERDAY. NOW WILL SOON POUR THE FLOOR FOR OFFICE. IT WILL BE MAY BEFORE THEY START HIRING A FEW PEOPLE. NEXT WEEK, THEY START GRADING FOR OUTSIDE PARKING AND LAWN AREA. THEY WILL START OFF WITH ONE SHIFT AND ADD A SECOND AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. THE NORTH WALL IS EXPANDABLE AND WOULD THEREFORE BE THE DIRECTION TO GO IF AND WHEN THEY HAVE NEED TO ADD ON TO BUILDING. THEIR BUSINESS IS VERY GOOD NOW...ESPECIALLY WITH ALL THE PROBLEMS OUT WEST WITH LACK OF ENOUGH ELECTRICITY.

THE SHAPE-UP JACKSON COUNTY WEIGHT-LOSS PROGRAM IS OVER. THE TOP TEAM, 'THE FAT RESISTORS' OF BELLEVUE TOOK FIRST PLACE, WITH A LOSS OF 146 POUNDS...OR AN AVERAGE OF 24 PER PERSON ON THE TEAM. ANOTHER BELLEVUE TEAM TOOK SECOND PLACE WITH A TOTAL LOSS OF 62 (6 ON TEAM ONLY) AND A MAQUOKETA TEAM, THE 'TOWN AND COUNTRY GALS' TOOK THIRD WITH 10 MEMBERS AND 80-POUNDS LOST. A GAL FROM BELLEVUE LOST 31 POUNDS..THE MOST BY ANY IN THE NEARLY 3-MONTH PERIOD. THE KMAQ TEAM DIDN'T WIN, PLACE OR SHOW...BUT GAVE IT ALL THEY HAD.

LEON F. STEFFEN, AGE 68, OF MONMOUTH DIED MONDAY AT THE VETS HOSPITAL IN IOWA CITY, FROM CANCER. HE AND HIS WIFE ARE OWNER-OPERATORS OF THE HIDEAWAY SUPPER CLUB IN MONMOUTH. SURVIVORS INCLUDE HIS WIFE, ANNA MAE ..2 DAUGHTERS... 3 SONS, INCLUDING DARRELL AND DEAN, BOTH OF MAQUOKETA.

LITTLE SHORT ON NEWS TODAY..SORRY.

DENNIS VOY  

COLD LAST NIGHT...13....COLD TODAY, HIGH 33. LOTS OF SUNSHINE.

A VETERAN OF THE MAQUOKETA MUNICIPAL ELECTRIC UTILITY POWER PLAN WAS NAMED PLANT SUPERINTENDENT SATURDAY, TO REPLACE FRANCES BELLER, WHO WILL RETIRED APRIL 27TH. MMEU BOARD MEMBERS APPOINTED BOYD SCHOENTHATLER TO THE POSITION. BOYD HAS WORKED AT THE PLANT FOR 11 YEARS, AS AN OPERATOR.

SCHOOL BOARD MEETING TONIGHT, MAINLY TO TALK ABOUT POSSIBLE BUDGET CUTS.

MAIL BOXES WERE VANDALIZED OVER THE WEEKEND AGAIN. REPORTING THE PROBLEM.....VINCENT MEDINGER, JERRY DALZIEL, AND BRIAN WATTERS....AND ALL LIVE NORTHWEST OF MAQUOKETA.

ALSO, THE LATE MANLEY BICKFORD'S HOUSE AT CANTON WAS BROKEN INTO...BUT NOTHING APPEARED TAKEN.

FORREST TUBBS CELEBRATED HIS 90TH BIRTHDAY TODAY AT HIS HOME AND A STEADY STREAM OF PEOPLE, INCLUDING MYSELF, STOPPED BY. THE EVENT WAS HOSTED BY HIS WIFE AGNES AND SON TOM. HE LOOKS MORE LIKE 70 THAN 90 AND ACTS IT TOO....AFTER VISITING IN THE HOUSE, HE TOOK ME OUT TO HIS LARGE SHOP AND SHOWED ME THREE CABINETS HE IS MAKING FOR A LADY IN PRESTON. ALSO SHOWED ME WHERE HE IS WEAVING RAG RUGS. AND EVERYONE THAT CAME TODAY, GOT A LITTLE WOODWORKING GIFT AND A POEM HE WROTE..YES..HE'S BEEN WRITING POETRY SINCE HIS HIGH SCHOOL DAYS.
HE AND AGNES WILL CELEBRATE THEIR 60TH WEDDING ANNIVERSARY ON MAY 25TH. HE SISTER, AGE 98, WAS THERE...AND THE WHOLE FAMILY HAS HISTORY OF LIVING TO BE AROUND A HUNDRED. WHAT A GUY.

THE POLICE WERE BUSY OVER THE WEEKEND. SHEILA HATCHER REPORTED A RUG DOCTOR SHE HAD RENTED WAS TAKEN FROM HER APARTMENT ON SOUTH MAIN.
....KJ'S CONVENIENCE STORE REPORTED A GAS DRIVE-OFF. A VOLKS RABBIT LEFT WITHOUT PAYING $10 FOR GAS....KRISTI GARIEN REPORTED HER PURSE WAS STOLEN...DOLORES EWING, MANAGER OF COASTAL-MART CONVENIENCE STORE REPORTED A BAG WAS MISSING WITH $188 IN IT AND HOWARD GARLICK REPORTED VANDALISM TO A BARN HE USES ON HIGHWAY 65 WEST...NOTHING TAKEN, BUT THEY LEFT A MESS. ALSO, TWO OR THREE OWI ARRESTS OVER THE WEEKEND.

DIXIE AND SHAWN RAYKER OF MARION HAS A GIRL SUNDAY....GRANDMOTHER IS PAT DIESING OF MAQUOKETA.

TOM AND JENNY SIMMONS OF DELMAR, A BOY BORN SUNDAY.

SCOTT AND BARB HARMS OF WYOMING, A GIRL BORN FRIDAY...GREAT-GRAND-MOTHER IS KATHERINE DIETZ OF MAQUOKETA.

NO MAQUOKETA DEATHS OVER THE WEEKEND.

THE DAIRY QUEEN OPENED LAST WEEK....A SIGN OF SPRING. TNT CONE SHOP STILL NOT OPEN.

COME BACK TOMORROW.

DENNIS VOY







 

CLOUDY AND AND COOLER TODAY, HIGH 44. DOWN INTO THE TEENS TONIGHT.

OUR SYMPATHY IS EXTENDED TO FORMER MAQUOKETA RESIDENTS, DON AND SHIRLEY MILLER OF MESA, ON THE DEATH OF HER MOTHER. MORE ON THE KMAQ GUEST BOOK.

A RURAL MAQUOKETA MAN, DON WARNER, WAS TAKEN TO IOWA CITY THIS MORNING FOR 3RD DEGREE BURNS TO HIS HANDS, FOLLOWING A FIRE AT ABOUT 8 THIS MORNING AT HIS HOME NEAR NASHVILLE, WEST OF MAQUOKETA.
FIREMEN SAY SOME PAINT CANS EXPLODED AND A ROOM WHERE WARNER WAS HAMMERING-DOWN SOME TRIM BOARDS. WHEN FIREMEN ARRIVED FROM MAQUOKETA AND LOST NATION, FLAMES ENGULFED THE ROOM.

FRANCES BELLER, THE PLANT SUPERINTENDENT OF THE MAQUOKETA MUNICIPAL ELECTRIC UTILITY, HAS ANNOUNCED THAT HE PLANS TO RETIRE IN APRIL, AFTER 35 AND 1/2 YEARS WITH THE COMPANY. HE STARTED OFF AS AN OILER AND WORKED HIS WAY UP. HAS BEEN IN HIS PRESENT POSITION OVER 11 YEARS. HIS WIFE HAS JUDY'S BEAUTY SALOON.

THE MAQUOKETA SCHOOL BOARD MET LAST NIGHT AND PROPOSED A 21-CENT TAX INCREASE FOR NEXT YEAR. THEY ALSO HIRED A FIRM TO HELP THEM ADVERTISE AND TAKE BIDS FOR HEALTH INSURANCE, AS THE PRESENT INSURANCE IS GOING UP 34%.

JACKSON COUNTY'S UNEMPLOYMENT RATE FOR FEBRUARY IS THIRD HIGHEST IN THE STATE, AT 6.3 PERCENT. THE STATE OF IOWA IS AT 2.6.
CLINTON COUNTY IS AT 4.5. SAME FOR DUBUQUE. CEDAR COUNTY IS 2.7 AND JONES COUNTY, 3.98. WHY? IS JACKSON COUNTY'S SO HIGH? I HAVE NO ANSWER, BUT WITH THE TWO NEW INDUSTRIES COMING...OUR RATE SHOULD BE MUCH BETTER A YEAR FROM NOW.

STARTING SUNDAY, MAQUOKETA'S NEW PHONE AREA-CODE WILL CHANGE FROM 319 TO 563. BUT BOTH WILL WORK UNTIL LATE THIS YEAR. GIVES EVERYONE TIME TO CHANGE STATIONARY, ETC.

DR. CLIFFORD RASK RETIRED THIS WEEK, AFTER 36 YEARS IN MAQUOKETA.
HE STARTED OFF WITH DRS BROMAN AND BROWN IN AUGUST OF 1965...AND OPENED HIS OWN PRACTICE IN 1978..AND THEN TOOK ON PARTNERS AFTER THAT.
HE SAID HE WILL FOCUS HIS RETIRMENT TIME ON FAMILY, CHURCH AND VOLUNTEER WORK. HE AND CAROL HAVE A COUPLE CHILDREN AND SEVERAL GRANDCHILDREN. AND, HE WAS MY LOCAL DOCTOR. I DON'T HAVE ONE NOW.
HE HAS BEEN A GOOD DOCTOR AND GOOD CITIZEN OF MAQUOKETA AND DESERVES A LONG AND HAPPY RETIREMENT.

FORREST TUBBS WILL CELELBRATE HIS 90TH BIRTHDAY MONDAY. FRIENDS ARE INVITED TO STOP BY AT HIS HOME ANYTIME OF THE DAY FOR REFRESHMENTS
SERVED BY HIS WIFE, AGNES. HE WAS BORN NEAR MAQUOKETA AND ATTENDED MAQUOKETA'S JUNIOR COLLEGE AND WAS A HOME CONTRACTOR FOR MANY YEARS AND ALSO HAS RUN AN APPLE ORCHARD AT HIS ACREAGE AT THE CORNER OF SUMMIT AND WESTERN AVENUE, ASSISTED BY HIS SON TOM.

HAVE A GOOD WEEKEND EVERYBODY.

DENNIS VOY











 

SUNNY.... AND MATCHED YESTERDAY'S HIGH OF 58...BUT FORECAST FOR NEXT 5-6 DAYS IS CALLING FOR WEATHER BACK IN THE 40'S.

HEARD TODAY....BUT NOT OFFICIAL..THAT A DUBUQUE MAN HAS EITHER LEASED OR PURCHASED THE GOLDEN SUN PLANT AT THE NORTH EDGE OF MAQUOKETA TO USE FOR THE PURPOSE OF MAKING HORSE FEED. THAT IS THE PLANT THAT ROSS RIVER PUT UP MANY YEARS AGO. IT HAS BEEN EMPTY FOR A LONG TIME AND TACKY LOOKING BECAUSE OF NO ACTIVITY THERE. IT WILL BE NICE TO SEE IN BACK IN OPERATION AGAIN. LOTS OF HORSES IN JACKSON COUNTY.
MORE LATER ON THIS, I'M SURE.

MARY JO HAINSTOCK TODAY OFFICIALLY ACCEPTED THE JOB OF SUPT. OF THE DELWOOD SCHOOL DISTRICT.

THE FRIENDS OF JACKSON COUNTY CONSERVATION ARE SPONSORING A CONTEST TO DESIGN A LOGO FOR THE PROPOSED HURSTVILLE INTERPRETIVE CENTER.
ENTRIES WILL BE TAKEN UNTIL MARCH 30TH.

ANDREW RECEIVED A GRANT OF $246,000 AND BELLEVUE, $400,000...FOR IMPROVEMENTS TO THEIR WATER SYSTEMS.

TONIGHT, THE ANNUAL JACKSON COUNTY PUBLIC HEARING ON THE 5-YEAR COUNTY ROAD IMPROVEMENT PLAN WILL BE HELD AT THE COURTHOUSE.
LOTS OF RURAL RESIDENTS WILL BE THERE ASKING FOR ROAD IMPROVEMENTS IN THEIR AREA.

THE BLOOD DRIVE YESTERDAY AT THE HOSPITAL WAS A BIG SUCCESS. THEY HAD SET A GOAL OF 50 UNITS AND GOT 65.

BRAD DEERY MOTORS WAS HIT AGAIN LAST NIGHT. TWO JEEPS AND A CHEVY BLAZER WERE SHOT BY PELLET OR BEEBEE GUN AND DAMAGE ESTIMATED AT $1,600. THEY HAVE UPPED THEIR REWARD TO $5,000 FOR INFORMATION LEADING TO THE ARREST OF THE PERSON OR PERSONS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE EXTENSIVE DAMAGE DONE THE LAST FEW MONTHS.

MAQUOKETA STATE BANK SPONSORED A SNOW FALL CONTEST IN MAQUOKETA...COVERING THE PERIOD FROM JANUARY 1ST THRU MARCH 15TH. THEY HAD 110 ENTRIES. ACCORDING TO KCRG-TV, CHANNEL 9, WEATHER SPOTTER ROBERT CHRISTENSEN OF MAQUOKETA, THE SNOWFALL TOTAL WAS
11 AND 1/2 INCHES. THE WINNER OF THE FIRST PRIZE, WITH THE EXACT AMOUNT GUESSED....ROBERT EARLES. HIS PRIZE, A SNOWMAN YARD THERMOMETER. SECOND PLACE WENT TO RUTH GREEN GUESSING 10.6 INCHES.
THIRD PLACE, A TIE BETWEEN JANET MITCHELL AND PHYLLIS SCHAEFER..BOTH GUESSING 10 AND 1/2 INCHES. KEEP IN MIND THOUGH...THE MONTH OF DECEMBER WAS THE SNOWIEST EVER AND THAT OUR TOTAL FOR THIS WINTER IS
CLOSE TO 40-INCHES.

THERE IS STILL SNOW ON THE GROUND IN MAQUOKETA.

BOB ENGEL AT COFFEE THIS MORNING SAID HIS WIFE HAD MADE A NOTE THAT ONE YEAR AGO TODAY, BOB MOWED HIS LAWN THE FIRST TIME. AND MORRIE MORRIS REPORTED THIS MORNING THAT A YEAR AGO..HE HAD ALREADY PLAYED 3 ROUNDS OF GOLF. WHAT A DIFFERENCE FROM ONE YEAR TO THE NEXT.

WE ARE WAITING NOW FOR OUR FIRST 60-DEGREE DAY.

COME BACK AGAIN TOMORROW.

DENNIS VOY


 

58 TODAY...WOW.

AT ROTARY TODAY, BRENT WELLS GAVE THE PROGRAM ON HOW TO MAKE YOUR HOME MORE ENERGY EFFICIENT.

CLINTON COUNTY HAS BEEN WITHOUT A COUNTY ENGINEER FOR SEVERAL MONTHS.
WHEN THEY LAST ADVERTISED....ONLY ONE OF THREE APPLICANTS WAS QUALIFIED...AND NOW HE CHANGED HIS MIND. SO..THEY ARE GOING TO RE-ADVERTISE AND TRY AGAIN. SEEMS THERE IS A REAL SHORTAGE OF
ENGINEERS FOR COUNTY GOVERNMENT THESE DAYS. MAYBE BILL UPMEYER WILL HAVE TO COME BACK OUT OF RETIREMENT. HE MUST BE GETTING TIRED OF FLORIDA BY NOW ANYWAY.

KMAQ'S 4TH ANNUAL 'HEALTH AWARENESS FAIR' AT THE FAIRGROUNDS WILL BE ON APRIL 19TH...FROM 11 A.M. UNTIL 8 P.M.

JON AND KIM ROLLINGER OF ELDRIDGE ARE PARENTS OF A BOY BORN LAST SATURDAY. GRANDPARENTS ARE TERRY AND BONNIE SKRIVSETH AND JOE AND JANET ROLLINGER.

SEVERAL NEW ENTRIES IN THE KMAQ GUEST BOOK.

AND ... GOODNIGHT MRS. CALLABASH...WHERE EVER YOU ARE.

FAMOUS SAYING BY WHO?

DENNIS VOY  

FOR THE SECOND DAY IN A ROW...MOSTLY SUNNY AND A HIGH OF 50.

MARY JO HAINSTOCK HAS BEEN OFFERED THE JOB OF SUPT.OF DELWOOD
SCHOOL DISTRICT. SHE TAUGHT AT MCHS...THEN WAS THE CURRICULUM DIRECTOR FOR MAQUOKETA AND THE LAST YEAR OR SO, HAS BEEN THE DEAN OF CLINTON COMMUNITY COLLEGE. SHE AND HUSBAND RICH ARE SOON GOING TO OPEN THE NEW GOLF COURSE IN MAQUOKETA. IF SHE ACCEPTS THE JOB...SHE WILL BE PAID $66,500 A YEAR.

JERRY AND DOROTHY RASMUSSEN RETURNED YESTERDAY FROM AN 8-DAY TRIP TO SPAIN...HAD A GREAT TIME. WENT WITH A TOUR OUT OF THE QUAD-CITIES.
JERRY, A MEMBER OF MY MORNING COFFEE GROUP, IS STILL WORKING AS A CONSULTANT TO BRAD DEERY MOTORS, FORMERLY RASMUSSEN MOTORS. THE RASMUSSEN'S WINTERED DOWN SOUTH FOR MANY YEARS, BUT THIS YEAR,
DECIDED TO STAY HOME FOR THE WINTER MONTHS, EXCEPT FOR A COUPLE WEEK-LONG TRIPS.

MORRIE AND DOROTHY MORRIS OF MAQUOKETA RETURNED HOME YESTERDAY FROM
VISITING THEIR SON, LEON, AT DALLAS. HE'S A COMMERCIAL PILOT...BEEN ONE EVER SINCE RETIRING FROM THE MILITARY WHERE HE ALSO WAS A PILOT IN VIETNAM AND OTHER PLACES. HIS SISTER, CHERYL, LIVES IN ARIZONA BUT MORRIE AND DOROTHY DIDN'T GET TO SEE HER THIS TIME. SHE IS PLANNING TO COME UP TO MAQUOKETA THIS SUMMER FOR A VISIT. NEITHER IS MARRIED.

A HARD-TO-BELIEVE ITEM NEXT....THE IOWA DOT AND THE CITY OF MAQUOKETA ARE GOING TO SPEND AROUND $400,000 ON A 3-YEAR STUDY ON HIGHWAY 64 THROUGH MAQUOKETA. AT TIMES, ITS A LITTLE BUSY NOW...BUT....LOTS OF CITIES HAVE BUSY STREETS...DURING RUSH-HOURS.

VERDA THOMPSON, AGE 83,OF WATERLOO DIED SUNDAY. FORMERLY OF BALDWIN AND MONMOUTH AREA. SURVIVED BY A COUPLE SISTERS IN MAQUOKETA....ESTER PETERMAN AND NADAINE WOSOBA.

HOPE EVERYBODY IS HAPPY.

DENNIS VOY  

SUNNY AND IN THE 50'S TODAY. NEEDLESS TO SAY..PEOPLE WERE HAPPY ABOUT THE WEATHER. WE HAVN'T HAVE 50'S WEATHER SINCE LAST NOVEMBER.

THE SENIOR CENTER IS GOING INTO A PROGRAM FOR "ADULT CARE" A COUPLE DAYS A WEEK. MORE INFORMATION LATER. FUNDING WILL COME FROM THE AREA AGENCY ON AGING. AN ADVISORY COMITTEE WILL BE FORMED AND A DIRECTOR WILL BE HIRED. NOW, THE NICE CENTER NEAR THE FAIRGROUNDS IS USED ONLY FOR A BREAKFAST AND NOON DINNER PROGRAM.

THE GROUNDBREAKING FOR MAQUOKETA'S NEWEST INDUSTRY WILL BE HELD THURSDAY MORNING, APRIL 5TH, AT 10:30 A.M. THE EVENT WILL START AT CITY HALL AND THE ACTUAL GROUNDBREAKING WILL TAKE PLACE JUST SOUTH OF MAQUOKETA WERE THE HUGE BUILDING FOR FAMILY DOLLAR WILL GO UP THIS SUMMER AND FALL.DSAF FIVE-HUNDRED PEOPLE WILL BE HIRED THERE NEXT SPRING.

TWO MEN WERE CAUGHT TRYING TO STEAL ANHYDROUS AMMONIA TO MAKE
METHAMPHETAMINE ON SATURDAY NIGHT NEAR BALDWIN. TOM DAGUE, AGE 21, AND MARTIN CLASEN, AGE 25, BOTH OF MAQUOKETA, ARE BEING HELD IN JAIL ON $13,000 CASH BOND. THE PAIR ARE CHARGED WITH CONSPIRACY TO MANUFACTURE METHAMPETAMINE...AND FOR TREESPASSING. SHERIFF'S DEPUTY TERRY ROLING SAID HE FOUND THE PAIR AT RURAL BALDWIN AROUND 7 SATURDAY NIGHT, ALLEGEDLY ATTEMPTING TO STEAL ANHYDROUS AMONIA.
THE PAIR SAW THE DEPUTY AND TOOK OFF ON A HIGH SPEED CHASE...AND THEIR VEHICLE WENT INTO THE DITCH AND THEN THE TWO FLED ON FOOT BUT
DEPUTIES FOUND THE PAIR SHORTLY AFTER.

MAQUOKETA CITY COUNCIL MEETING TONIGHT.

A BIRTH: DARRYL AND THERESA MACHENTHUN OF GRIFFITH, INDIANA, ARE THE PARENTS OF A BOY BORN MARCH 12TH IN INDIANA. GRANDPARENTS ARE HAL AND DONNA MYERS OF MAQUOKETA.

DALE E. MOORE OF DEWITT, AGE 75, DIED SATURDAY. SURVIVORS INCLUDE A SISTER, SHIRLEY WINEGAR IN MAQUOKETA.

JACK MARLOWE WAS THE BIG WINNER ON KMAQ RADIO BINGO TODAY, WINNING THE REGULAR DAILY PRIZES AND THE $100.00 CASH BONUS. JACK IS RETIRED, BUT STILL PUTS IN PART-TIME HOURS THE AT MAQUOKETA NEWSPAPER...WRITING SPORTS AND SOME OTHER STORIES...AND ALSO IS BACK WITH A WEEKLY COLUMN. AND..HE STILL DOES A LOT OF WALKING EVERY DAY.

ROB ROTMAN, SON OF CARL ROTMAN OF MAQUOKETA, AND FOR QUITE A FEW YEARS NOW, A RESIDENT OF CHICAGO, SENT ME HIS ANNUAL PREDITIONS FOR THE OSCARS TELECAST SUNDAY. HE HAS BEEN DOING THIS FOR YEARS AND IS GENERALLY QUITE GOOD ON HIS PREDICTIONS...AS HE FOLLOWS MOVIES AND 'LIVE THEATRE" QUITE EXTENSIVELY. WHENEVER HE COMES TO MAQUOKETA FOR A VISIT, HE STOPS IN TO SAY HELLO. HE DOES AMATEUR THEATRE WORK IN CHICAGO AND LOVES IT. DOES SOME WRITING TOO.
ANYWAY, HE PREDICTS THE MOVIE WINNER WILL BE "TRAFFIC" AND THE ACTOR WINNER WILL BE ED HARRIS AND THE ACTRESS WINNER WILL BE JULIA ROBERTS. ANYONE WANTING ROB'S ADDRESS CAN E-MAIL THE REQUEST TO ME. HE WOULD ENJOY HEARING FROM FORMER CLASSMATES AND FRIENDS.

THANKS AGAIN FOR YOUR VISIT.

DENNIS VOY





 

SUNNY AND AROUND 50

IOWA MEN'S BASKETBALL TEAM LOST LAST NIGHT...AND SEASON IS OVER.

HAWKEYE WOMEN ARE STILL IN TOURNAMENT.

MINNESOTA BEAT IOWA IN THE NCAA WRESTLING TOURNAMENT THIS PAST WEEKEND IN IOWA CITY...BUT ERIC JUERGENS OF MAQUOKETA WON ANOTHER
NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP. AND...THE GREAT COLLEGE CAREER FOR THE MAQUOKETA ALL-AMERICAN HAS COME TO AN END.

AT BOY'S STATE TOURNAMENT THIS PAST WEEK, BELLEVUE MARQUETTE TOOK 3RD IN THE 1-A STATE FIELD....SO DID CASCADE TAKE 3RD IN 2-A...AND WESTERN DUBUQUE WON THE CHAMPIONSHIP IN 3-A. W. DUBUQUE FINISHED THE YEAR UNDEFEATED AND IT WAS THEIR FIRST VISIT EVER TO STATE.
THEY BEAT A SIOUX CITY TEAM IN OVERTIME IN THE FINAL SECONDS.
CASCADE AND WESTERN DUBUQUE ARE BOTH IN THE BIG BEND CONFERENCE, THE SAME CONFERENCE MAQUOKETA IS IN. INDIANOLA WON THE 4-A TROPHY.

KATE CARINDER OF MAQUOKETA HAS A NEW HOME COMPUTER BUSINESS AND HER NEW WEB SITE, DESIGNED BY MY SON DAVE, IS ON-LINE. CHECK IT OUT AT---
www.intergenerationalinternet.com.....also Linda Polista has a new Web site at www.crosscountytours.freeservers.net.....and you can take sneak look at Delmar's new site which is almost done and is temporarily at www.internetiowa.com/delmar....send KATE AND LINDA AN E-MAIL AND LET THEM KNOW WHAT YOU THINK OF THEIR SITE.

WE ARE GOING TO TRY SOMETHING NEW ON THIS SITE....A "PICTURE-OF-THE- WEEK" FROM ONE OF YOU. JUST E-MAIL IT TO ME AND WE'LL PUT IT UP.
FOR INSTANCE, ... I'M SURE EVERYONE WOULD LIKE TO SEE A PICTURE
OF RON AND SHIRLEY MILLER TAKEN IN SUNNY ARIZONA....OR A PICTURE OF
DICK WARD AND HIS PET SNAKE....BE FIRST TO SEND A PICTURE TO SHARE WITH THE SOME 200-OR-MORE THAT CHECK THIS SITE DAILY.

HAVE A GOOD WEEK AHEAD.....SPRING'S ALMOST HERE.

DENNIS VOY







 

SUNSHINE AND IN THE 40'S TODAY.

ROSS AND VIVIAN RIVER CELEBRATE THEIR 50TH WEDDING ANNIVERSARY TOMORROW AFTERNOON AT THE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH, WITH AN OPEN HOUSE.
NANCY AND I PLAN TO GO. ROSS AND VIVIAN STILL WORK FULLTIME IN THE WICK BUILDINGS BUSINESS. THEY HAVE BEEN A KMAQ ADVERTISER SINCE 1958,WHEN STATION FIRST WENT ON THE AIR.

BEN MILLER OF MAQUOKTA CELEBRATES HIS 94TH BIRTHDAY MARCH 20TH...LIVES AT CRESTRIDGE NURSING HOME. SON IS DOUG MILLER OF MAQUOKETA.

BILL SAGERS OF MAQUOKETA CELEBRATES HIS 90TH ON MARCH 23RD. HIS DAUGHTER IS NANCY CLARK OF MAQUOKETA. HE ARRIVED IN MAQUOKETA ON THE ORPHAN TRAIN IN 1919.

HAWKEYES AGAINST KENTUCKY TONIGHT. GO HAWKEYES!

DENNIS VOY  

FOUR INCHES OF SNOW ON THE GROUND THIS MORNING. AND IT HAS SNOWED A LITTLE ALL DAY TODAY...SO TOTAL IS ABOUT 5 INCHES. BECAUSE IT WAS UP IN THE MID-30'S...SOME HAS ALREADY MELTED AND I EXPECT MORE TO GO OVER THE WEEKEND.....RATHER SLUSHY OUT TODAY.

BELLEVUE MARQUETTE WON THEIR GAME AGAINST LYNVILLE-SULLY THIS MORNING BY 1 POINT, SO THEY TOOK 3RD IN THE STATE. THEY ENDED THE YEAR WITH A 25 AND 3 RECORD.

IOWA PLAYS KENTUCKY TOMMORROW NIGHT IN THE NCAA TOURNAMENT. TOO BAD ABOUT IOWA STATE LOOSING BY 1 POINT LAST NIGHT.

HAVE A GOOD WEEKEND.

DENNIS VOY





 

RAIN THIS MORNING AND SNOW IN FORECAST FOR LATE TONIGHT AND TOMORROW MORNING..WITH 3 TO 6 INCHES FORECAST.

BELLEVUE MARQUETTE BOYS LOST THEIR TOURNAMENT GAME THIS AFTERNOON AND NOW PLAY AGAIN TOMORROW MORNING AT 10. IF THEY WIN, THEY GET 3RD PLACE...IF THEY LOOSE, THEY GET 4TH...SAME AS THEY DID LAST YEAR AT STATE.

IOWA WON TODAY IN THEIR NCAA TOURNAMENT GAME AND PLAY KENTUCKY SATURDAY NIGHT. IOWA STATE PLAYS THEIR NCAA GAME TONIGHT.

GREG AND KELLI WARDLE OF DUBUQUE ARE PARENTS OF A BOY BORN YESTERDAY MORNING AT DUBUQUE. GRANDPARENTS ARE DOUG AND MARIAN SCHMITZ OF MAQUOKETA.

JEAN WAITE, AGE 61, DIED TUESDAY IN NEW JERSEY. HER FUNERAL WILL BE MONDAY HERE IN MAQUOKETA. SHE IS SURVIVED BY A SON, GORDON AND A DAUGHTER MARCIA..BOTH MARRIED AND LIVING IN NEW JERSEY..ALSO 2 GRANDCHILDREN.

FRANCES REID, AGE 89, DIED TODAY. SHE AND LATE HUSBAND FARMED IN ONSLOW AND MOVED TO MAQUOKETA AFTER RETIRING IN 1974. SURVIVORS INCLUDE SON RON OF ONSLOW, HUSBAND OF SHERRI WELLS HICKS REID.
ALSO A DAUGHTER, WANDA BECKER OF MAQUOKETA AND ANOTHER DAUGHTER IN WEST DES MOINES.

JOHN PULS DIED TODAY AT DUBUQUE HOSPITAL...AGE 80. HE AND WIFE MARY RAN THE BELLEVUE PHARMACY FOR MANY YEARS. SERVICES PENDING AT KINGERY FUNERAL HOME. SURIVORS INCLUDE HIS WIFE.



 

SUNNY THIS MORINING..CLOUDY THIS AFTERNOON...IN THE 40'S.
BIG SNOWSTORM SAID TO BE COMING THURSDAY LATE AFTERNOON AND THURSDAY NIGHT...DUMPING SEVERAL INCHES ON US.

THE NEARLY 13-MILLION DOLLAR BOND ISSUE IN DEWITT NEEDED 60% PASSAGE YESTERDAY AND GOT 56%. WELTON AND GRAND MOUND VOTED BIG AGAINST IT...AS THEY WANT TO KEEP A SCHOOL IN THEIR TOWN. THE CENTRAL OF DEWITT BOARD WILL PROBABLY GO FOR ANOTHER ELECTION IN AROUND 6 MONTHS.

MAQUOKETA'S POPULATION IS UP 1 PERSON IN THE 10-YEARS SINCE LAST CENSUS. CHANNEL 6 TV DID A CUTE STORY ABOUT THAT ON THEIR 10 PM NEWSCAST LAST NIGHT....INTERVIEWING LOCAL PEOPLE ABOUT WHO WAS THE EXTRA PERSON, ETC. ETC.

MAQUOKETA POLICE, ALONG WITH THE IOWA ALCOHOL BEVERAGE DIVISION, YESTERDAY...WENT TO 13 BUSINESS PLACES WHO SELL TOBACCO PRODUCTS IN MAQUOKETA. AN UNDERCOVER YOUTH WAS TURNED DOWN FOR CIGARETTES BY 12 OF THE 13. ONLY ONE SOLD TO THE MINOR AND CHIEF BOB ANDERSEN DECLINED TO NAME THE BUSINESS THIS MORNING....SAYING..CHARGES ARE PENDING. THE UNDERCOVER OPERATION WAS PAID FOR BY A GRANT. THE CHIEF SAYS HE WAS HAPPY WITH THE RESULTS. HE SAID IT SHOWS LOCAL
MERCHANTS ARE ON THE BALL AND WATCHING WHAT'S GOING ON. HE ESTIMATES FEWER TEENS ARE SMOKING NOW THAN IN PAST YEARS.

SOMEONE STOLE LUKE DOSTAL'S 96 OLDS ACHIEVA YESTERDAY ...OR LAST NIGHT...FROM HIS RESIDENCE....IT IS STILL MISSING.

MIKE AND AMY DONAHUE OF MAQUOKETA HAD A BOY SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE LOCAL HOSPITAL.

KEVIN AND DEEANN FLENKER OF MAQUOKETA HAD A BOY MONDAY, ALSO AT THE JCP HOSPITAL HERE IN TOWN.

ANN BURNS, OF THE JACKSON COUNTY CONSERVATION DEPARTMENT, TALKED TO THE MAQUOKETA ROTARY CLUB TODAY ABOUT THE PLANNED NEW HURSTVILLE INTERPRETIVE CENTER...JUST SOUTH OF MAQUOKETA...ALONG NEW HIGHWAY 61...RIGHT ACROSS THE ROAD TO THE NORTH FORM GENE PARMER'S PLACE. IT WILL COST JUST OVER 900-THOUSAND-DOLLARS.
THE LAND WAS GIVEN TO THE JACKSON COUNTY CONSERVATION BOARD BY THE IOWA DOT. $250,000 NEEDS TO BE RAISED LOCALLY AND THE REST IS EXPECTED TO COME FROM GRANTS. THE CONSERVATION BOARD HAS $240,000 SO FAR.
IT WILL BE TWO STORIES, TOTALING NEARLY 10,000 SQUARE FEET.
CONSERVATION STAFF OFFICES WILL LOCATE TO IT FROM THE BASEMENT OF THE COURTHOUSE. BOB SHEETS, OF THE DNR, IS ALSO GOING TO HAVE HIS OFFICE IN IT. IT WILL HAVE THE WILDLIFE CENTER ON ONE FLOOR AND A COMUNITY ROOM ON THE OTHER, WITH PUBLIC RESTROOMS. IT WILL HAVE WALKING RAMPS TO BOTH FLOORS. IT WILL ALSO HAVE A WALKING TRAIL
THROUGH THE MARSH AREA ON THE GROUNDS. THE BUILDING IS GOING TO BE VERY ATTRACTIVE AND THIS SHOULD BE A REAL BOOST TO TOURISM PROMOTION FOR THE AREA. PLUS, IT SHOULD BE USED A LOT BY STUDENTS...ALL SIZE CLASSES WILL BE WELCOME TO COME BY BUS. YOUR $10 OR WHATEVER WILL HELP AND BE APPRECIATED. SEND CHECK TO ME AND I'LL FORWARD IT ON TO THE FUND RAISING COMMITTEE.

JEAN M. WAITE, AGE 61, DIED AFTER A BRIEF ILLNESS YESTERDAY. SHE WAS FROM MAQUOKETA BUT LAST YEAR MOVED TO NEW JERSEY, TO BE NEAR HER TWO CHILDREN, GORDON AND MARSHA. SHE WAS RUNNING THE BANOWETZ ANTIQUE SANDWICH SHOP...CALLED 'KATHY'S CORNER' UNTIL SHE MOVED.
MADE THE BEST BREAD PUDDING AROUND....EXCEPT MAYBE..MY WIFE'S IS PRETTY GOOD TOO.

LOIS ANN HANSEN IS GETTING MARRIED THIS NOVEMBER. SHE'S ONE OF OUR ACE SALESPERSONS HERE AT KMAQ. LUCKY GUY IS KEVIN FISCHER, WHO WORKS UP AT THE HOSPITAL. HER BOY MATTHEW, AGE 7, WILL WALK HER DOWN THE AISLE. HER DAD IS DON ROLLING AND HE'LL BE WALKING DOWN WITH THEM. ALL HAVE NOVEMBER 24TH CIRCLED ON OUR CALENDAR.

BONNIE DANIELS OF RURAL MILES..JUST WON KMAQ BINGO.

AND THAT'S IT FOR TODAY.

DENNIS VOY



 

HIGH IN 40'S TODAY, WITH SUNSHINE.

MAQUOKETA'S NEW POPULATION IS 6,112....A .02 PERCENT INCREASE FROM THE 1990 CENSUS. IN OTHER WORDS, ALMOST EXACTLY THE SAME AS 10 YEARS AGO. NO SURPRISE! LOTS OF NEW HOMES AND APARTMENTS IN THE CITY, BUT THE PER HOUSEHOLD POPULATION IS DOWN. JACKSON COUNTY WAS UP....LESS THAN 10%....AND CLINTON WAS THE ONLY EASTERN IOWA COUNTY THAT WAS DONE, WITH THE CITY OF CLINTON ITSELF DOWN AROUND 5%.
BELLEVUE WAS UP 5% TO 2,350. MILES UP 13%. LAMOTTE UP 24%.
ANDREW UP 44% TO 460. SPRINGBROOK UP 57%, TO 182. PRESTON DROPPED OVER 7% AND WENT UNDER A THOUSAND. SABULA DROPPED NEARLY 6%. DEWITT WAS UP 12% AND WENT OVER 5,000.

SHORT REPORT TODAY...SORRY.

DENNIS VOY  

RAIN THIS MORNING...LESS THAN A HALF INCH...AND CLOUDY THE REST OF TODAY....A HIGH OF 43.

THE BELLEVUE MARQUETTE BOYS WON THEIR OPENING BALL GAME AT THE STATE TOURNAMENT TODAY, 44 TO 40. IT WAS CLOSE ALL THE WAY...AND BELLEVUE TRAILED A COUPLE TIMES. THEY PLAY AGAIN EARLY THURSDAY AFTERNOON.

THE IOWA HAWKEYES ARE IN THE NCAA TOURNAMENT....THANKS TO A GREAT BIG TEN TOURNAMENT THAT THEY WON YESTERDAY. THEY ARE THE TALK OF THE TOWN.

THE JACKSON COUNTY SUPERVISORS MEET TOMMORROW MORNING...AND ARE PROPOSING A SLIGHT TAX INCREASE FOR NEXT YEAR. ONE REASON..IS TO HIGHER AN ADDITONAL DEPUTING IN THE SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT.

DEWITT HAS A 12.89-MILLION DOLLAR BOND ELECTION TOMORROW, TO BUILD A NEW HIGH SCHOOL AND MAKE OTHER BIG CHANGES. 60% APPROVAL IS NEEDED.
IT IS THEIR 4TH TRY. WELTON AND GRAND MOUND WILL BOTH LOOSE THEIR SCHOOL IN THE PROPOSAL...AND THAT IS NOT TOO POPULAR IN THOSE TOWNS, AS MUCH SENSE AS IT MAY MAKE.

JOSH HEINRICH, AGE 16, WAS CHARGED OVER THE WEEKEND WITH CRIMINAL MISCHIEF IN THE 5TH DEGREE FOR THROWING EGGS AND SYRUP AT THE MAQUOKETA HIGH SCHOOL. HE WAS ALSO CHARGED WITH CURFEW VIOLATION AND POSSESSION OF TOBACCO. ALSO CHARGED, JEREMY SIMMONS,AGE 19, WITH MAKING TOBACCO AVAILABLE TO MINORS.

RONALD KRUMVIEDE, AGE 37, OF MAQUOKETA, WAS SENTENCED TO 12 YEARS IN JAIL FOR THINGS HE DID BACK ON DEC. 14TH, WHEN HE STOLE A VEHICLE AND LEAD OFFICERS ON A HIGH SPEED CHASE AND HIT SEVERAL PARKED CARS AND NEARLY RAN OVER A PEACE OFFICER.

IRMA MILLHOUSE, AGE 72, DIED AFTER A SUDDEN ILLNESS SATURDAY AFTERNOON AT A DAVENPORT HOSPITAL. SHE IS SURVIVED BY HER HUSBAND, VERNON...1 DAUGHTER, KOREEN SCHORK OF MAQUOKETA AND A SISTER ELAINE MEINCKE OF MAQUOKETA.

BILL RITENOR, AGE 101, OF PRESTON,DIED SUNDAY. HE ENLISTED IN THE US ARMY WHEN AGE 17 AND SERVED DURING WORLD WAR I IN GERMANY AND FRANCE.

DONALD D. WITT, FORMERLY OF PRESTON, DIED YESTERDAY AT THE AGE OF 63.
SURVIVORS INCLUDE HIS WIFE PAT AND A TWIN SISTER, DONNA WITT, OF MAQUOKETA.

HAVE A GOOD WEEK EVERYONE.

DENNIS VOY  

SUNNY THIS MORNING AND CLOUDY THIS AFTERNOON...AND WE ARE IN THE UPPER 40'S.

PRESTON WON THE 1-A STATE GIRL'S BASKETBALL LAST NIGHT, BY A HUGE MARGIN....OUT-SCORING THE KEOKUK TEAM AROUND 30 TO 3 IN THE FINAL QUARTER. TWO YEARS IN A ROW FOR THE CHAMPIONSHIP...AND NO LOSSES IN THE TWO YEARS. A HOME-COMING RECEPTION FOR THEM IN PRESTON LATER TODAY.

THE BELLEVUE MARQUETTE BOYS PLAY IN THE STATE TOURNAMENT AT 2 MONDAY AFTERNOON.

THIS WEEK, SCHOOL SUPT. RODNEY MONTAG WAS OFFERED ANOTHER ONE-YEAR CONTRACT. TERMS OF SALARY NOT ANNOUNCED AND HE HAS NOT DECLARED IF HE'LL STAY. LAST YEAR, YOU'LL RECALL, HE GOT THE ONE-YEAR CONTRACT WITH NO PAY RAISE.

A 12-YEAR OLD MAQUOKETA MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENT HAS BEEN SUSPENDED FROM SCHOOL FOR THREATENING TO BRING A GUN TO SCHOOL. MIDDLE SCHOOL PRINCIPAL KIM HUCKSTADT SAID THE STUDENT DID NOT BRING A WEAPON TO SCHOOL. IT WAS SIMPLY A THREAT. SCHOOL OFFICIALS RECEIVED TWO CALLS FROM PARENTS SAYING THEY HAD HEARD THE KID THREATENED TO BRING A GUN TO SCHOOL AND WOULD SHOOT PEOPLE. THE NAME OF THE KID WAS NOT RELEASED.

A MILES MAN, LOWELL PICKET, DIVORCED AND HAS 3 KIDS, AGE 39, SHOT HIMSELF AND DIED INSTANTLY AT A CONVENIENCE STATION IN PRESTON THURSDAY NIGHT FOLLOWING A HIGH SPEED CHASE IN THE AREA, AFTER AUTHORITIES ATTEMPTED TO ARREST HIM ON A SEXUAL ASSAULT CHARGE.

TOOTY KOZAK, AGE 85, OF MAQUOKETA, DIED THURSDAY AT THE MAQUOKETA CARE CENTER. SHE AND HER LATE HUSBAND OWNED AND OPERATED KOZAK DRY CLEANERS FOR OVER 40 YEARS. SHE IS SURVIVED BY A DAUGHTER, JOAN HUNT OF MAQUOKETA AND A BROTHER IN MAQUOKETA, JIM RANKIN.

A GIRL WAS BORN TUESDAY TO KENDALL AND JULIE FROST OF MAQUOKETA.
GRANDPARENTS ARE LENORA FROST OF MAQUOKETA AND MARIE ALLISON OF ELWOOD.

MARV AND HELEN BRADY ARE CELEBRATING THEIR 60TH WEDDING ANNIVERSARY THIS WEEKEND. THE KIDS ARE HOME. DINNER TONIGHT AT THE DEPOT.
WHEN I CAME TO TOWN IN '58, THEY OPERATED 'THE HOUSE OF BRADY'
FURNITURE STORE. LATER MARV AND A FRIEND DON, RAN DON-MARVIN FURNITURE AND THEN IN LATER YEARS, THE BRADYS RAN THE SEARS CATALOG STORE ON NORTH MAIN. DAUGHTER DARLENE HAYES LIVES OVER LOST NATION-ELWOOD WAY..AND DAUGHTER KAY LIVES IN BRANSON.

AL MUHLHAUSEN WAS HONORED BY FELLOW MAQUOKETA VOLUNTEER FIREMEN AS BEING THE FIRST RECIPIENT OF THE LEO CLASEN MEMORIAL AWARD...FOR SERVICE ABOVE AND BEYOND THE CALL OF DUTY. CLASEN DIED LAST YEAR AFTER A LONG BATTLE WITH CANCER. AWARD WAS PRESENTED TO AL AT THE FIREMEN'S ANNUAL CHRISTMAS PARTY AND AWARD'S NIGHT,HELD AT THE COUNTRY CLUB IN JANUARY. IN 2000, FIREMEN RESPONDED TO 90 FIRE CALLS AND 47 RESCUE CALLS.

THE MAQUOKETA STATE BANK IS HAVING OPEN HOUSE NEXT FRIDAY OF THEIR NEW OFFICE IN ANDREW.

SANDRA MARCUS AND DAVID LINDGREN ARE GETTING MARRIED APRIL 28TH HERE IN TOWN. HER PARENTS ARE GARY MARCUS OF OTTER CREEK AND BARB AND GARY MILLER OF MAQUOKETA AND HIS PARENTS ARE CHARLES AND MARY ANN OF MAQUOKETA. SHE IS A FINANCIAL CONSULTANT AND HE IS AN ATTORNEY FOR THE IOWA SUPREME COURT.

MARC GARTMAN WILL MARRY RACHEL GOETZ ON JUNE 29TH. RACHEL IS FROM WISCONSIN AND MARC'S PARENTS ARE AL AND SHIRLEY GARTMAN OF MAQUOKETA. BOTH ARE ASSISTANT MANAGERS AT TARGET.

BOB WAGENER, SON OF JOHN, WILL AGAIN BE THE STOCK CAR RACING PROMOTER IN MAQUOKETA...AND DAVENPORT. FIRST RACES OF THE SEASON IN MAQUOKETA WILL BE APRIL 21ST. START YOUR ENGINES.

SOME LOCAL STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF DUBUQUE ARE TOURING HOLLAND, BELGIUM AND FRANCE RIGHT NOW. THEY ARE LUKE HAHLE, LINDSEY MOREHEAD, AND LEVI THOLA.

THE NEW GENERAC BUILDING ALREADY HAS A BIG SIGN ON IT, THAT CAN BE READ FROM HIGHWAY 61....SOUTH OF MAQUOKETA.

THAT IS GOING TO DO IT FOR NOW.

CHECK THE KMAQ GUEST BOOK.

OVER 60,000 HITS FOR THIS REPORT...NOT BAD. THANKS TO YOU.

I FIGURE THIS REPORT TAKES 150 HOURS A YEAR...EQUAL TO OVER 3 WORK WEEKS. I REALLY SHOULD CUT BACK..BUT WILL TRY TO KEEP IT GOING.

DENNIS VOY  

I JUST ENTERED FRIDAY REPORT...BUT MAY HAVE LOST IT...
AND IF SO...THERE WILL BE NO REPORT TODAY. HAVE TO RUN.  

SUNNY THIS MORNING...CLOUDY AND WINDY THIS AFTERNOON..HIGH 37.

NOTHING HAPPENING AROUND HERE.

NO BIRTHS..NO DEATHS.

ERIC JUERGENS, MAQUOKETA , MEMBER OF HAWKEYE WRESTLING TEAM ....OVER THE WEEKEND WAS NAMED BIG 10 WRESTLER OF THE YEAR.

PRESTON GIRLS PLAY GAME 2 AT STATE TONIGHT.

AIRPORT COMMISSION IS LOOSING ONE OF THEIR AIRPORT MANAGERS...FRANK GOODENOW. THEY ARE ADVERTISING FOR HELP. FRANK HAS HAD AN UPHOLSTERY BUSINESS OUT THERE AND NOW THEY WILL TRY TO RENT HIS HANGAR SPACE.
THE OTHER CO-MANAGER ON A PART-TIME BASIS IS BRIAN JENSEN, WHO HAS AN ULTRA-LIGHT BUSINESS IN ONE OF THE HANGARS. FROM WHAT I CAN TELL...IT HAS BEEN PRETTY SLOW OUT AT THE AIRPORT, ESPECIALLY THIS WINTER. SOME EVEN SAY WE DON'T NEED THE AIRPORT AND SHOULD
CLOSE IT. THE BIG DUBUQUE AIRPORT IS JUST 20 MINUTES NORTH OF MAQUOKETA ON NEW 4-LANE HIGHWAY 61.

SORRY, BUT NOTHING MORE.

DENNIS VOY



 

SUNNY THIS MORNING...CLOUDY AND WINDY THIS AFTERNOON..HIGH 37.

NOTHING HAPPENING AROUND HERE.

NO BIRTHS..NO DEATHS.

ERIC JUERGENS, MAQUOKETA , MEMBER OF HAWKEYE WRESTLING TEAM ....OVER THE WEEKEND WAS NAMED BIG 10 WRESTLER OF THE YEAR.

PRESTON GIRLS PLAY GAME 2 AT STATE TONIGHT.

AIRPORT COMMISSION IS LOOSING ONE OF THEIR AIRPORT MANAGERS...FRANK GOODENOW. THEY ARE ADVERTISING FOR HELP. FRANK HAS HAD AN UPHOLSTERY BUSINESS OUT THERE AND NOW THEY WILL TRY TO RENT HIS HANGAR SPACE.
THE OTHER CO-MANAGER ON A PART-TIME BASIS IS BRIAN JENSEN, WHO HAS AN ULTRA-LIGHT BUSINESS IN ONE OF THE HANGARS. FROM WHAT I CAN TELL...IT HAS BEEN PRETTY SLOW OUT AT THE AIRPORT, ESPECIALLY THIS WINTER. SOME EVEN SAY WE DON'T NEED THE AIRPORT AND SHOULD
CLOSE IT. THE BIG DUBUQUE AIRPORT IS JUST 20 MINUTES NORTH OF MAQUOKETA ON NEW 4-LANE HIGHWAY 61.

SORRY, BUT NOTHING MORE.

DENNIS VOY



 

SUNNY, WINDY AND COLD TODAY, HIGH OF 29...DOWN TO 10 TONIGHT.

THE BELLEVUE MARQUETTE BOYS DEFEATED THE BELLEVUE COMETS IN BOY'S TOURNAMENT BASKETBALL AND FOR THE 2ND YEAR IN A ROW, THE CATHOLIC SCHOOL BOYS GO ON TO THE STATE TOURNAMENT....PLAYING NEXT MONDAY AFTERNOON AT 2.

DEWITT PLAYS WESTERN DUBUQUE TONIGHT AND IF DEWITT WINS, THEY ALSO GO TO THE BOY'S STATE TOURNY NEXT WEEK.

THE PRESTON GIRLS THIS AFTERNOON WON THEIR STATE TOURNAMENT GAME AGAINST ODEBOLT-ARTHUR, BY A SCORE OF 72 TO 45..AND PLAY AGAIN WEDNESDAY NIGHT.

MAQUOKETA CITY COUNCILL MEETING TONIGHT.

A MAQUOKETA MAN WAS ARRESTED OVER THE WEEKEND FOR ALLEGEDY KIDNAPPING AND BEATING ANOTHER MAN IN FEBRARY. CHARGED IS NOAH MOSES, AGE 20.
OTHER MAN IS WAYNE HRABE. POLICE SAY HRABE SAID ON FEB 19TH, MOSES THREATENED AND ASSAULTED HIM WITH A BASEBALL BAT AND A BUTCHER KNIFE.
MOSES WAS ARRESTED AND IS IN JAIL ON A CASH BOND OF $42,000.

DAVID AND STACI VAN ZIMMERRAN OF MAQUOKETA ARE PARENTS OF A GIRL BORN FRIDAY AT THE LOCAL HOSPITAL. GRANDPARENTS ARE KAREN AND LARRY SPECHT OF MAQUOKETA.

EUNICE K. BROWN, AGE 90, OF MAQUOKETA DIED LAST NIGHT. FOLLOWING A PERIOD OF PRIVATE DUTY NURSING IN MAQUOKETA, SHE WAS HIRED BY DR. J.W. JORDAN TO ASSIST IN HIS NEWLY ESTABLISHED MEDICAL PRACTICE.
SHE WAS WITH DR. JORDAN FOR 35 YEARS, RETIRING WHEN DR. JORDAN DIED IN 1970. SHE IS SURVIVED BY A SISTER-IN-LAW, VIRGINA BROWN OF MAQUOKETA.

HAVE A GOOD WEEK WHEREVER YOU ARE.

DENNIS VOY
 

SUNNY AND IN 40'S TODAY.

BELLEVUE MARQUETTE BOYS, PLAYED BELLEVUE COMMUNITY BOYS,(BOTH IN TOP TEN 2-A STANDINGS IN STATE)LAST NIGHT IN NEUTRAL DUBUQUE GYM AND IN DOUBLE OVERTIME, BELLEVUE MARQUETTE GAVE THE COMETS THEIR FIRST LOSS OF SEASON. WHAT A GAME, BROADCAST ON KMAQ BY LEIGHTON HEPKER AND FRIEND, STEVE MOORE. MARQUETTE PLAYS TOMORROW NIGHT AGAIN..AND IF THEY WIN...AND I THINK THEY WILL...THEY'LL BE GOING ON TO THE STATE TOURNAMENT THE WEEK AFTER NEXT.

DEWITT ALSO WON LAST NIGHT..A MILD UPSET OVER DAVENPORT ASSUMPTION..A TEAM THAT HAS WON THE STATE TITLE TWO YEARS IN A ROW. WELL... THEY WON'T BE GOING BACK THIS YEAR. DEWITT NEEDS TO WIN ONE MORE GAME, NEXT MONDAY NIGHT, AND THEY WILL GO TO STATE.

THE PRESTON GIRLS GO TO STATE NEXT WEEK, AND PLAY MONDAY MORNING AT 11:30. LEIGHTON WILL BROADCAST THE GAME ON KMAQ-FM STARTING AT 11:15.

SURPRISE BUSINESS ANNOUNCEMENT TODAY. JACK ROSENBERG(Mayor)..ANNOUNCED THAT HE WILL TRY TO SELL HIS ROSENBERG AUTO SUPPLY BUSINESS THIS MONTH, OR CLOSE IT MARCH 30TH. HE WILL CONTINUE TO OPERATE HIS NEXT DOOR LIQUOR STORE. HE SITED THE REASON FOR SELLING IS THAT THE AUTO PARTS BUSINESS HAS CHANGED AND DISTRIBUTORS ARE NOW GETTING INTO THE BUSINESS OF SELLING PARTS. THE LONGTIME BUSINESS WAS STARTED BY HIS FATHER, BERNIE, WHO DIED LAST YEAR. JACK PURCHASED THE BUSINESS FROM HIS DAD QUITE A FEW YEARS AGO. IT HAS 7 EMPLOYEES IN ADDITION JACK AND HIS WIFE, PAM.

BRENT J. CLARK OF MAQUOKETA WS CHARGED WITH DOMESTIC ASSAULT IN MAGISTRATE COURT THIS MORNING. MAQUOKETA POLICE SAY RACHEL CLARK SAID THAT WHEN SHE WENT TO PICK UP HER SON, BRENT CLARK PUSHER HERAND HIT HER IN THE FACE. THE INCIDENT HAPPENED AT 7:30 LAST NIGHT AT 1205 EAST PLATT STREET.

ALSO IN COURT TODAY, TODD W. WIESE, AGE 24, WAS CHARGED WITH DOMESTIC ABUSE, SECOND OFFENSE. MAQUOKETA POLICE SAY HE GOT INTO AN ARGUMENT WITH HIS EX-GIRLFRIEND AT 4:20 WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON AT 651 NORTH MATTESON. DURING THE ARGUMENT, WIESE PUSHED HER ONTO THE FLOOR. HE ALSO THREW A LAMP, WHICH HIT AN 11-YEAR-OLD CHILD, ABOVE EYE, RESULTING IN 10 STITCHES.

FUNERAL SERVICES FOR BOB HAYES, AGE 74, OF WATERNTOWN, SOUTH DAKOTA, WILL BE TOMORROW. HE DIED WEDNESDAY THERE. HE AND HIS WIFE PURCHASED A FORD-CHRYSLER DEALERSHIP THERE IN 1982. HE IS SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE BONNIE, 2 DAUGHTERS, JAN BROOKS OF WATERTOWN AND MELISSA HAYES OF WATERTOWN AND 1 SON, ROBERT C. OF BELLEVUE, IOWA.
JAN'S HUSBAND IS MARK, WHO WAS MAQUOKETA'S POLICE CHIEF UNTIL THEY MOVED OUT THERE A COUPLE YEARS AGO TO JOIN THE AUTO BUSINESS.

HAVE A GOOD WEEKEND.

DENNIS VOY